Those are soft hyphens, which supplement the crappy hyphenation support built in to most browsers. w3m should probably just ignore them, but it looks like your

Those are soft hyphens, which supplement the crappy hyphenation support built in to most browsers. w3m should probably just ignore them, but it looks like your version is broken[1]. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441934 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441934