2.2.7 [HTML] Section 9.3.3, Hyphenation

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The specification states:

 Those browsers that interpret soft hyphens must observe the following semantics: If 
 a line is broken at a soft hyphen, a hyphen character must be displayed at the end 
 of the first line. If a line is not broken at a soft hyphen, the user agent must 
 not display a hyphen character. For operations such as searching and sorting, the 
 soft hyphen should always be ignored.

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The soft hyphen is not ignored when searching or sorting.