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When I try to paste a text from a web page inside Emacs I get this "-" between words. Here is one example:

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Is there a way to get rid of this (don't know the term..) ?

Aus Sicht vie­ler Deut­scher ist Russ­land ein rät­sel­haf­tes Land. Ich habe elf Jah­re lang von dort für den SPIEGEL be­rich­tet, bis Ende 2009. Bis heu­te ver­fol­ge ich die Ent­wick­lung in dem Land, das ich je­des Jahr be­su­che.

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    This is most likely a soft hyphen inserted for browsers to hyphenate the text correctly. Put point on it and use M-x describe-char to verify that. – wasamasa Dec 27 '20 at 12:35
  • What @wasamasa said. Apply that info to the answer provided about replacing. (But you might also want to find out if there's a way to prevent this happening in the first place.) – Drew Dec 27 '20 at 19:13
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(query-replace-regexp (format "\\b%c\\b" 173) "" )

or in interactive mode

C-M-% \bC-x 8 RET ad RET \b RET RET

the sequence `C-x 8 RET ad RET' is for generate the SOFT HYPHEN char (#xad =#173).

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  • @gigair, unfortunately this doesn't seem to work – Enrico Pirani Dec 27 '20 at 23:32
  • Yes, because the dash in the answer isn't the same as the dash in your text. Copy-paste it from the text into the replacement part of either part of the answer. – wasamasa Dec 28 '20 at 1:37
  • @Enrico Pirani. Posting text as an image isn't really a good idea. You should have provided the message text as text. – gigiair Dec 28 '20 at 5:10
  • @gigiair if I post the text (copy paste from Emacs) the soft hyphen will disappear. The same happens when I paste in other program like TextEdit or Pages ... anyway this the text. – Enrico Pirani Dec 28 '20 at 7:01
  • You can post verbatim using a pastebin. ix is an Emacs extension to do so. This is an example : ix.io/2K4F – gigiair Dec 28 '20 at 9:18

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