SOFT HYPHEN character

SOFT HYPHEN
U+00AD
173
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Cf (Format Character)
BN (Boundary Neutral)
N
0
Latin-1 Supplement
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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SOFT HYPHEN is a format control character from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of SOFT HYPHEN is Boundary Neutral (Weak). It belongs to the invisible formatting characters that are invisible to the bi-di algorithm..

The Boundary Neutral (BN) bidi class includes characters that do not have an inherent directionality and do not affect the directionality of adjacent characters. These are typically format characters that serve structural roles in text but are not visible. BN characters are crucial for maintaining text structure without influencing the overall direction of text flows.

Format (Cf) refers to characters that affect the formatting of text without being displayed themselves. These characters control the behavior of text in ways such as directionality, joining, and spacing, ensuring that the text appears correctly in different contexts.

This character belongs to the Latin-1 Supplement block. The Latin-1 Supplement block extends the Basic Latin block by adding additional characters used in Western European languages. This includes letters with diacritics (such as é, ñ, and ö), punctuation marks, and symbols like the Euro sign (€). This block is part of the ISO/IEC 8859-1 encoding standard, which was widely used before the adoption of Unicode. These characters are essential for representing languages such as French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, ensuring proper orthography and typographic conventions..