Talk:Soft hyphen

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is required for us to include information about the Microsoft Word 2010 keyboard shortcut for such important Soft Hyphen, please to insert and update and the making available. Thank you! 167.83.109.24 (talk) 12:17, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Sasper's revision

Sasper's revision needs to be undone. There is no visual example anymore and this is unacceptable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.121.165.4 (talk) 22:56, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

I miss the old Pac-Man example.—Jchthys 22:14, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

C2AD

Many times I found a character with the code %C2%AD. I think it should be mentioned in this article

Examples: this newspaper article - copy the text: "Austria, Un­garia, Cehia, Slovenia, Croatia si Ro­ma­nia" - now put square brackets around Ro­ma­nia - Ro­ma­nia. Click on the red linkg - you get:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro%C2%ADma%C2%ADnia

instead of 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania

This article: Sancţiunile luate rapid de ministrul Ion Bazac în „Scan­dalul Slatina” au generat un con­flict deschis între Minis­terul Sănătăţii şi Colegiul Medicilor din România.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minis%C2%ADterul_S%C4%83n%C4%83t%C4%83%C5%A3ii

I found some information about this character here:

• http://www.mail-archive.com/netsurf-users@netsurf-browser.org/msg01677.html
• http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/c2ad/index.htm

—  Ark25  (talk) 23:58, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Explaining "Line breaks: pri¦ori|tize"

The Oxford Dictionaries has guidelines for how to set line breaks for English words, e.g. see prioritize. It seems to differentiate between broken bar (¦) and vertical bar (|). Is this a lexical standard? Is it documented on Wikipedia? The wikipedia article states "The broken bar has hardly any practical application and does not appear to have any clearly identified uses distinct from the vertical bar", but ref. the use in the Oxford Dictionaries, this seems to be wrong. Bjornte (talk) 13:07, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Good idea to figure out what Oxford's convention is and add that info to this article and/or to Vertical_bar#Solid_vertical_bar_vs_broken_bar. It's the kind of thing dictionary prelims state. I lack print versions of Oxford dicts, and the online version seems to lack appropriate links to prelims content—if it's there, it's too hard to find. Hope someone comes along who can shed some light. Quercus solaris (talk) 21:47, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

@Quercus solaris and Bjornte: I do not see any bars in the entries. --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:35, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Microsoft WOrd?

How do you insert a soft hyphen in Microsoft Word? 129.6.219.251 (talk) 04:30, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Erroneous deletion by bot

WikiCleanerBot removed a soft hyphen that was part of the example shown. I would like to request a reversion and some measure to prevent this from reoccurring. (Sorry, just not being knowledgeable enough for that.) Thanks in advance. – Javítgató (talk) 12:30, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

The trick is to use the entity (­) instead of the raw character. This is evidenced by the bot not changing the paragraph where all the spaces where turned into soft hyphens. Done. David Garfield (talk) 01:41, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

this article is poorly written

the article obsesses over the visibility vs invisibility of these hyphens as if that was their purpose; their purpose is to indicate where line breaks should be inserted. they are not visible if word wrapping takes place, they are the linebreaks that are inserted to actually avoid word wrapping. word wrapping is what you do (word wrapping is whole word wrapping) if you don't know where to hyphenate. they don't become visible if they occur at the end of a line, they mark the end of the line, and then become visible. if you can't understand what I'm saying, you are not the person to fix this. ~2025-41898-51 (talk) 06:08, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

That is correct. However, not much is likely to happen unless you make some suggestions about what text should be changed to what. Better still, feel free to edit the article. Johnuniq (talk) 06:27, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

"­" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect ­ has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 June 17 § ­ until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 07:39, 17 June 2026 (UTC)