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On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Rick Jelliffe wrote: > > From: Liam Quin <liamquin@i...> > > The hyphen is 0255 octal (173 decimal). It is a hyphen, not a soft hyphen. > > There is no soft hyphen in Latin 1. > > I don't have the necessary copy of Unicode in front of me, > > In both Unicode 1.0 and Unicode 2.0 ­ is called "soft hyphen" > or "discretionary hyphen", so it is available, but perhaps not reliably > supported by 8859-1 applications. Not supported at all would be a fairer way to put it! At any rate not by _conforming_ 8859-1 applications, as far as I understand it... in the same way that most SGML applications don't treat &x; as a syntax error even when it's illegal in ISO C or FORTRAN :-) I don't have a copy of 8859 any more to check, but if the hyphen chracter is to be treated as a soft hyphen, there's no way to type a hard hyphen... > Also available is the zero-width space ​ > For example, supercali​fragalistic&x200B;expialladocious. Perhaps, but to claim that this is more readable to humans than supercali&softhy;fragalistic&softhy;expialladocious. would be absurd. If you hadn't omitted the # in the 2nd reference, the length would have been the same too. Using &hy; is even better. You can always do <!--* hy: soft (discretionary) hyphenation point: *--> <!Entity hy '​'> Lee -- Liam Quin -- the barefoot typographer -- Toronto lq-text: freely available Unix text retrieval email address: liamquin, at host: interlog dot com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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