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Soft hyphens only "part of the text" because the hyphens are represented using "in band signaling" instead of "out of band" signaling, as in proper bold and ita
by quotemstr 8y ago
Soft hyphens only "part of the text" because the hyphens are represented using "in band signaling" instead of "out of band" signaling, as in proper bold and italic. It's still just information about the text, not the text itself.
- mrob 8y agoIt's exactly because they're in-band signaling that they should be preserved. I don't expect copy and paste to change the sequence of Unicode code points. If the browser "helpfully" removes certain code points then it's more complexity I have to think about. The only change I'd consider acceptable would be changing to a specified Unicode normalization form. In this case the complexity already exists within Unicode, so the browser isn't making it worse.