The phrase below is a very long string of characters with periodic soft-hyphens (­, or ­). On browsers that support it, this character acts as a "non-spacing break". Meaning that it takes no space in normal text, but if the text is too long, the browser will break at that location and hyphenate. (ref, ref)

Browser Compatibility
IE 6.0Yes
IE 5.5??
IE 5.0??
Mozilla 1.6No - bug #9101
Opera 7.23Yes
Safari??

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