TYPO3 Core

Soft hyphens (­) are used to let browsers automatically break words onto the next line. Unfortunately, they are not visible in the backend when editing text fields that contain them.

TYPO3 should assist editors by making them visible.

I could imagine that the text field content is shown below the input field as "normal" text, with the soft hyphens shown as normal hyphens with a grey background (only if the field really contains soft hyphens).

Title (Label)
 [Superficially long          ] <-- (input field)
 "Su-per-fi-cially long"        <-- (Text with soft hyphens shown)