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Discretionary hyphens do not seem to work

I can’t get discretionary hyphens to work in Illustrator CC 23.0.2, either by shift-command-- or with Type->Insert Special Character->Hyphens and Dashes->Discretionary Hyphen. Whether Hyphenate is turned on or off for the paragraph does not matter. Language does not seem to make a difference either.
Only the hyphens added by Illustrator itself are obeyed.

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  • Jens Klang commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have this problem in Illustrator 2024 (v 28) trying to control hyphenations in a German translation.

  • Jonas commented  ·   ·  Report

    Discretionary hyphens still broken in v. 26.

  • Cat commented  ·   ·  Report

    Same issue here!

  • Jonas commented  ·   ·  Report

    Discretionary hyphens are still broken in v25 (CC2021).

    1. Make a text box, with some text in it. Oh no, a word is hyphenating in a bad spot!
    2. Add discretionary hyphen in the correct spot
    3. Nothing happens... Word still breaking in the wrong spot... :(

  • Jonas Madsen Rogne commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm trying to use discretionary hyphens as well. They seem to take effect for like half a second before it reverts to breaking my word somewhere else. It's really weird.

    Hypenation in ai seems broken.

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