Soft hyphens (­) are output as visible characters

[fthues]

We're character-splitting headlines containing ­ soft hyphens. Those are usually invisible and act as a hyphenation hint for the browser.

This is how Califor­nia Dreaming is rendered, note the extra glyph (U+F8FF):

Different font, same issue (here ­ is rendered as a different glyph):

Is there a way to ignore the ­s when processing the DOM?

Edit: This is Chrome/macOS. Seems fine on Firefox.

[fthues]

Simply checking for and stripping the offending unicode character (00AD) from contents inside the splitText function works, but then of course the soft hyphen is thrown out completely as if it was never there.

Hm, the unprocessed ­ would need to be wedged back in between the generated <span class="char">s..