Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 02/12/06 23:48

Toby Inkster <usenet200602@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

> kinder<small style="display:none">-</small>garten

That's not elegant at all, because the hyphen would appear in small
font when CSS is disabled but <small> markup is honored. Besides, the
way Google handles hyphenated compounds is somewhat mysterious.

Using kinder&shy;garten might be reasonable _if_ you think that it is
acceptable to spell the word as "kinder-garten", too.

> kinder&#xFEFF;garten

The U+FEFF character is a space character. Though it has nominally no
width, it may be expanded in justification, and it also constitutes an
allowed line break point - a direct line break point, not a hyphenation
point. Would you like to have the word split as "kinder" (without a
hyphen) at the end of a line.

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