ASCII Character
Soft hyphenASCII character soft hyphen is a non-printing character.
In computing and typesetting, a soft hyphen (ISO 8859: 0xAD, Unicode U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN, HTML: or or ) or syllable hyphen (EBCDIC: 0xCA), abbreviated SHY, is a code point reserved in some coded character sets for the purpose of breaking words across lines by inserting visible hyphens. Two alternative ways of using the soft hyphen character for this purpose have emerged, depending on whether the encoded text will be broken into lines by its recipient, or has already been preformatted by its originator.
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ASCII Code for SHY
These are the code points for soft hyphen in various character setsUnicode for SHY
The character for soft hyphen is mapped in Unicode as U+00AD| Unicode | U+00AD | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 173 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u00ad | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x53 0x48 0x59 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 10100110100100001011001 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 10100110100100001011001 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x00AD | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000000AD | |
HTML Entities for SHY
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the soft hyphen in HTML| HTML Number | ­ | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | ­ | |
| HTML Entity | ­ | |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %C2%AD | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =C2=AD |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u00AD" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \00AD | |
| JavaScript | "\u00AD" | |
| Perl | \x{00AD} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u00AD" | |
| Python 3 | \u00AD | |
| Ruby | \u{00AD} |