I submitted a discussion of the SOFT HYPHEN issue to the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC, also known as INCITS/L2, the US technical advisory group to ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC2) and hope they will discuss it at one of their next meetings:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/L2/03155r-kuhn-soft-hyphen.pdf Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
