soft hyphen

== English == === Noun === soft hyphen (plural soft hyphens) (computing, typography) A generally invisible text character marking a point where hyphenation can occur without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text is later reflowed. ==== Usage notes ==== The interpretation of this character varies among standards and some text systems. Unicode defines it incompatibly with ISO 8859-1 which defines it as "[a] graphic character that is imaged by a graphic symbol identical with, or similar to, that representing hyphen, for use when a line break has been established within a word." [1] ==== Synonyms ==== discretionary hyphen ==== Translations ====