Using soft hyphens (&shy) in Enfold Text-Blocks

Hey Mike,

the problem is *not* the stripping in visual mode, but in text mode.
Anyhow, thanks for pointing in the right direction!
I’ve learned that my “problem” was basically caused by TinyMCE (and NOT Enfold!).

Unfortunately the link you’ve posted is not what I would call a “clean solution”.
Read about using the ‘entities’ element in tiny_mce_before_init here. As you can see, you always have to add value *pairs* (consisting of the character code and the character name).

According to the TinyMCE spec, ‘entity_encoding’ must also be set to ‘named’ to show the defined names.
This is the TinyMCE default, but apparently that gets changed to ‘raw’ somewhere before my tiny_mce_before_init filter function get’s called.
So I ended up with the following code:

/* Show ­ and   in TinyMCE editor's text mode */
function override_mce_options($initArray) {
	// Add entities to the default array (nbsp, shy) 
	$initArray['entities'] .= ',160,nbsp,173,shy'; 
	$initArray['entity_encoding'] = 'named';

	return $initArray; 
}
add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init', 'override_mce_options');

As the comment states, the code shows the two non-printable characters ‘soft hyphen’ and ‘non-breaking space’ as their corresponding HTML entities ‘­’, resp. ‘ ’ in the editor’s text mode.

My suggestion ist to display all non-printable characters (think of en space, em space, thin space, …) as their corresponding HTML entities by default: that’s the only chance to identify them again after one has inserted them.

Best regards,
Jürgen

Hi,

as my comment states, at least the parameter ‘entity_encoding’ is not at it’s default value as defined in the spec.

Anyhow, you can close the topic, of course!

Cheers,
Jürgen