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ISO symbol for soft hyphen. In computing and typesetting, a soft hyphen (Unicode U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN (­)) or syllable hyphen, is a code point reserved in some coded character sets for the purpose of breaking words across lines by inserting visible hyphens if they fall on the line end but remain invisible within the line.
The familiar Alt+### combination (where ### is from 0 to 255) retains the old MS-DOS behavior, i.e., generates characters from the legacy code pages now called "OEM code pages." For instance, the combination Alt + 1 6 3 would result in ú (Latin letter u with acute accent ) which is at 163 in the OEM code page of CP437 or CP850. [ 2 ]
Not sign: 0108 U+00AD 173 0302 0255 ­ Soft hyphen: 0109 U+00AE ® 174 0302 0256 ® Registered trademark symbol: 0110 U+00AF ¯ 175 0302 0257 ¯ Macron: 0111 U+00B0 ° 176 0302 0260 ° Degree sign: 0112 U+00B1 ± 177 0302 0261 ± Plus–minus sign: 0113 U+00B2 ² 178 0302 0262 ² Superscript two: 0114 U+00B3 ³ 179 0302 ...
Symbol Unicode name of the symbol [a] Similar glyphs or concepts See also ́: Acute (accent) Apostrophe, Grave, Circumflex Aldus leaf: Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index: Fleuron: ≈: Almost equal to: Tilde, Double hyphen: Approximation, Glossary of mathematical symbols, Double tilde & Ampersand: plus sign: Ligature (writing) Angle brackets
Figure 1. Special-character links above edit window: Symbol group. Groups for the special-character links below the edit window are displayed one at a time; the default group is Insert, which includes punctuation and some other common symbols (see Figure 2 below), but another group may be shown if you have previously selected it. Click the down ...
A Unicode character is assigned a unique Name (na). [1] The name is composed of uppercase letters A–Z, digits 0–9, hyphen-minus and space.Some sequences are excluded: names beginning with a space or hyphen, names ending with a space or hyphen, repeated spaces or hyphens, and space after hyphen are not allowed.
A soft hyphen is an "optional" hyphen – a point at which a word may be broken over the end of a line, with a visible hyphen inserted at line end. The ultimate decision as to whether a particular word will be broken is made by the browser, and depends on a combination of text-layout heuristics , user preferences set in the browser, and ...
The formal, primary Unicode name is unique over all names, only uses certain characters & format, and is guaranteed never to change. The formal name consists of characters A–Z (uppercase), 0–9, " " (space), and "-" (hyphen).