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The character is Unicode U+00AD, the soft hyphen: "= discretionary hyphen" / "commonly abbreviated as SHY" / "an invisible format character indicating a possible hyphenation location"

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf

I know of it, but apparently I've never previously pasted text using it into my text editor, because it's displayed there as a hyphen (though it is still U+00AD).

I'm wondering what CMS/editor outputs so many SHY characters.



It appears to be a site generated with react+Gatsby. Would be interesting to figure it out which text component is responsible for this odd text decoration




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