A hyphen inserted into a word not otherwise hyphenated, to be displayed or typeset only if it falls at the end of a line of text.
软连字符，换行连字符
Example sentencesExamples
For operations such as searching and sorting, the soft hyphen should always be ignored.
Throw in soft hyphens (as unicode characters) in multiline text fields, and Flash will actually render them as normal - always visible - hyphens!
Abstract Encoding of hard and soft hyphens, including guidelines for determining when a line-end hyphen is soft
Use of the non-breaking space and soft hyphen indicator characters is discouraged because support for them is not widely deployed.
In fact, I recommend that you never type a soft hyphen directly, but rather that you use a glossary item which types a hyphen-in-a-box, so that you can always see it, and then later perform a Find / Replace to turn these into soft hyphens for formatting purposes.
Definition of soft hyphen in US English:
soft hyphen
nounsɔft ˈhaɪfən
A hyphen inserted into a word not otherwise hyphenated, to be displayed or typeset only if it falls at the end of a line of text.
软连字符，换行连字符
Example sentencesExamples
For operations such as searching and sorting, the soft hyphen should always be ignored.
Use of the non-breaking space and soft hyphen indicator characters is discouraged because support for them is not widely deployed.
Throw in soft hyphens (as unicode characters) in multiline text fields, and Flash will actually render them as normal - always visible - hyphens!
In fact, I recommend that you never type a soft hyphen directly, but rather that you use a glossary item which types a hyphen-in-a-box, so that you can always see it, and then later perform a Find / Replace to turn these into soft hyphens for formatting purposes.
Abstract Encoding of hard and soft hyphens, including guidelines for determining when a line-end hyphen is soft