Soft Hyphen Test - Please read if you have a minute

Wood­work

Does anyone see anything in the above word between the d and the w? Anything at all? If so, please post your browser and operating system!

More testing; ignore:

Law I. Eve­ry body per­se­veres in its state of rest, or of u­ni­form mo­tion in a right line, un­less it is com­pelled to change that state by forces im­pressed there­on.
Law II. The al­ter­a­tion of mo­tion is ev­er pro­por­tion­al to the mo­tive force im­pressed; and is made in the di­rec­tion of the right line in which that force is im­pressed.
Law III. To eve­ry action there is always opposed an equal reaction; or the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

—Isaac Newton

Don’t see anything in either IE 5.5 or NS 6.2 on a Win98 system.

I don’t see anything there.

IE 6.0.26 Win98

Nope. Opera 6.01/Win98

I see it in Netscape 4.76, but not in IE 5.5. Interestingly, I see the m-dash before “Isaac Newton” in IE, but not in Netscape, where it appears as “—”. I’m on Windows 2000.

See nothing in IE6.0 on Windows 2K

And a long dash before Isaac…

I see the em dash before Isaac, but nothing in the midst of the woodwork.

MacOS 9.0.4, iCab 2.8

Mac here.

In Netscape, I see “wood?work”

In IE, I see “wood-work”

Oh, and the last line of you post in Netscape is:
&****mdash;Isaac Newton
In IE, the &****mdash; looks like an em-dash.

DrMatrix, I assume you’re using an older version of Netscape? Like Navigator 4 or something?

Okay thanks everyone. I don’t need any more reports. If the soft hyphen gets rendered incorrectly in some browsers, I won’t use it. I am surprised, however, to see that — does not always get rendered as an em dash! I’ve been using that for months! :eek: Okay, I’ll stop that too. Thanks all.

Sheesh, I use the em dash all the time.

I’m using Netscape Communicator 4.79. I think that is the highest I can go with Mac OS 9.x. Netscape 6 requires OS X.

DrM, I use Netscape 6 and Mac OS 9.2. It is a slower though so you might be better off staying with Netscape 4.79. You can install Netscape 6 in a different folder and compare.