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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.
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 ...
Soft hyphen or non-breaking hyphen (-) is a hidden separator for hyphenation in the places specified by the user, regardless of the automatic hyphenation. [4]
SMALL HYPHEN-MINUS U+FE63: Pd, dash Common － FULLWIDTH HYPHEN-MINUS U+FF0D: Pd, dash Common ֊ ARMENIAN HYPHEN U+058A: Pd, dash Armenian ᐀ CANADIAN SYLLABICS HYPHEN U+1400: Pd, dash Canadian Aboriginal ־ HEBREW PUNCTUATION MAQAF U+05BE: Pd, dash Hebrew ᠆ MONGOLIAN TODO SOFT HYPHEN U+1806: Pd, dash Mongolian ອ YEZIDI HYPHENATION MARK U+ ...
Hyphen-minus: 0014 U+002E . 46 056 Full stop: 0015 U+002F / 47 057 Slash (Solidus) 0016 ASCII Digits: U+0030 0 48 060 Digit Zero: 0017 U+0031 1 49 061 Digit One: 0018 U+0032 2 50 062 Digit Two: 0019 U+0033 3 51 063 Digit Three: 0020 U+0034 4 52 064 Digit Four: 0021 U+0035 5 53 065 Digit Five: 0022 U+0036 6 54 066 Digit Six: 0023 U+0037 7 55 067 ...
Here they are arranged in alphabetical order for comparison (or for copy and paste convenience). Since these characters appear in different Unicode ranges, they may not appear to be the same size or position due to font substitution by the browser.
The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. [1]The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the plus sign +.
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