On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > And there is really no guarantee that programs support the > soft hyphen. For one, Microsoft Word doesn’t—it treats it > as just another printable character.
... and also: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html#word MS Word's behaviour depends on the setting File > Options > Advanced > Cut, copy, and paste > Pasting from other programs. "Keep Text Only" : U+00AD remains U+00AD. "Merge Formatting": U+00AD is changed to U+001F. When I copy MS Word's own soft hyphen (i.e. U+001F) from MS Word into any other program, I get U+00AC (¬). :-( -- From the New World: http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=ISO-8859-2&q=Dvofi%E1k
