Re: soft hyphen and hyphenation

On Tue, Nov 27, corvid wrote:
> Johannes wrote:
> > I know, I brought this up in the first place, but now I noticed,
> > that the unconditional hyphen (0xe2 0x80 0x90) seems not be
> > available in all fonts (e.g. I only see squares for it on
> > heise.de). So maybe a hyphen-minus aka '-' might be simpler and
> > commonly available (also see [1]). What do you think?
> 
> hyphen-minus sounds safest to me.

What about making it configurable, with hyphen-minus as default?

> I wish we had a good way to deal with the squares...

One could think of testing which character is available, and so switch
to other characters, but probably this is unnecessarily complex.

Sebastian