On Sun, 3 Jul 2011, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: >> You're wrong, it DOES. I just tested it (in Microsoft Word 2010 for >> Windows 7) within a random long word (aaaaaaaaaa....) and the SHY >> is recognized to generate the intended hyphenation break. > > That’s good news, if your analysis is correct, but the problem still > exists in all Word versions up and including Word 2007.
Philippe Verdy does not understand the difference between U+001F and U+00AD. Even MS Word 2010 continues to use U+001F as soft hyphen but does not recognize U+00AD as soft hyphen.

