Words with soft hyphen are shown as misspelled

[SirPL]

I think the title is self-explainatory. I wish publisher skip soft hyphens and other zero-width character in spellchecking.

[pixupdate]

Same in german language.

[Chris B]

Thanks. I'll pass this to the developers for you.

[mykee]

Maybe connect to this bug: when import a PDF, then hyphen ("-") set to hidden character, not imported as normal hyphen (this is important in hungarian communication in book). I imported a PDF with normal hyphens. Is this Publisher settings, or bug when import?

See my preview, here is hidden hyphens after import:

 

And what I see when no turn on hidden characters:

 

[SirPL]

@mykee – I think it's not a bug but misconception of what hyphen is for. Let me explain on that:

In polish books there's a similar concept of indicating dialogs and narration, but we do it with dashes: en – or em —. Hyphen however is used only for... hyphenation.

So why Publisher changes hyphens to soft ones? Because it expects them to be placed only at the end of a line and inside a word. Thanks to the change if you resize a text frame, you don't get a hyphen in the middle of the running text.

What you can do about it?

• Use find and replace (soft hyphen => en dash)
• Import better typesetted documents

[mykee]

Thanks for great tip, just I wondered, why replace text what was there to a hidden character. Ok, typography is better with em or en dashes, but these was not changed before converted to PDF in 2014. I think, this document need a repair, and prepare for ebook formats, but I cannot see dashes.