Unicode Character 'SOFT HYPHEN' (U+00AD) | 
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SOFT HYPHEN
			SOFT HYPHEN
| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | SOFT HYPHEN | 
| Block | Latin-1 Supplement | 
| Category | Other, Format [Cf] | 
| Combine | 0 | 
| BIDI | Boundary Neutral [BN] | 
| Mirror | N | 
| Index entries | SOFT HYPHEN HYPHEN, SOFT shy hyphen, discretionary discretionary hyphen  | 
		
| Comments | discretionary hyphen commonly abbreviated as SHY an invisible format character indicating a possible hyphenation location  | 
		
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) | 
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| HTML Entity (decimal) | ­ | 
| HTML Entity (hex) | ­ | 
| HTML Entity (named) | ­ | 
		
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +00AD Alt 0173  | 
	
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC2 0xAD (c2ad) | 
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11000010:10101101 | 
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x00AD (00ad) | 
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 173 | 
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x000000AD (00ad) | 
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 173 | 
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u00AD" | 
| Python source code | u"\u00AD" | 
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| Java Data | |
|---|---|
| string.toUpperCase() |  | 
| string.toLowerCase() |  | 
| Character.UnicodeBlock | LATIN_1_SUPPLEMENT | 
| Character.charCount() | 1 | 
| Character.getDirectionality() | DIRECTIONALITY_BOUNDARY_NEUTRAL [9] | 
| Character.getNumericValue() | -1 | 
| Character.getType() | 16 | 
| Character.isDefined() | Yes | 
| Character.isDigit() | No | 
| Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() | Yes | 
| Character.isISOControl() | No | 
| Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() | Yes | 
| Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() | No | 
| Character.isLetter() | No | 
| Character.isLetterOrDigit() | No | 
| Character.isLowerCase() | No | 
| Character.isMirrored() | No | 
| Character.isSpaceChar() | No | 
| Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() | No | 
| Character.isTitleCase() | No | 
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() | Yes | 
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() | No | 
| Character.isUpperCase() | No | 
| Character.isValidCodePoint() | Yes | 
| Character.isWhitespace() | No |