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Invisible dash

Louislau -  
Louislau Posted messages 1 Status Member -
Hello, I noticed in some documents I received from clients that some hyphens ""-"" between compound words appeared as invisible characters!!
Meaning that when I display the usual invisible characters (space, line break, ...) these hyphens also turn blue.... The issue is that they disappear when I copy/paste the text into another application....
????? I honestly don't understand because they are not in the list of official characters in Word... can someone enlighten me???
Thanks

Configuration: Macintosh / Firefox 77.0

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    m@rina Posted messages 27777 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   11 568
     
    Hello,

    I would talk about conditional hyphens... that is to say, hyphens that are invisible unless the word appears at the end of the line, in which case they turn into a hyphen for word division. This allows one to impose their choice of hyphenation on long words, for example.

    But on Mac, I don't know anything.

    m@rina

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    1. Louislau
       

      How can I transform this dash into a "real" dash, because it needs to be present and it even displays when the word is in the middle of the page ...???

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    2. Louislau Posted messages 1 Status Member
       


      here's what it looks like with and without the display of invisible characters...
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