I am having an issue with my text mesh pro objects and getting soft hyphens to work properly. I read that TMP uses u00AD for soft hyphens but it is not working as expected. One of three things happen that are unexpected.
- If I add u00AD to my text it always inserts a space character even when it does not need to wrap. Depending on the font this space is a little square (result 2 from screenshot)
- the word breaks where I place the u00AD but does not show a “-” hyphen.
- depending on the font it never breaks.
In the screenshot I added u00AD to all words where they can be split with soft hyphens. In the expected section I highlighted the softhyphens that are added correctly. As you can see from the two results the redwords show that the hyphens either show as a space or some square character depending on the font.
I thought the point of the soft hyphen was that a hyphen would be placed if and when the word needs to break, but if it does not need to break nothing would be placed there at all.
I modified my source fonts with FontForge to make sure that the hyphen gliph is set up to be used as the soft hyphen as well for both of these fonts but it is not being used properly. Should I be using something other than u00AD to insert the soft hyphen?
Here is the source text from the screenshot.
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