Hypnation results to two hyphens in one word

And just a remark about the hyphenation behavior with language "Dutch" ( not Dutch: 2005 Reform ).

With language "Dutch" it is alright, that after the hyphen the dash is maintained in the next line of text:

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi M.M.J.B82A,

I see the same issue when I open your InDesign document with my German InDesign 2021.

And I also was in trouble to find the right settings so that the hyphenation of the text is the result you are expecting with the applied language for the text: Dutch: 2005 Reform.

Here the stages of my little journey:

[1] Opened an IDML file of your document, ignored the missing font warnings and headed for Preferences > Dictionary.

As you can see from my German InDesign the language of the dictionary is set to German: 2006 Reform. This setting is not specific to a document, it is for the application.

What is a specific preference for a document is Hyphenation. And that is set to Hunspell.

The word Oost-Azië is selected in the text and the hyphenation apparantly is the wrong one. The selected text is formatted with Language: Dutch: 2005 Reform

[2] If I now change my document related preferences for Hyphenation to Proximity, nothing changes. To be absolutely sure about this I answered my changes to the preferences with OK, opened them again and then took the screenshot:

[3] Hm. Now I was unsure what to do next and tried the following:
I changed the language of Hyphenation back to Hunspell and changed the language of the dictionary to Dutch: 2005 Reform. Still hyphenation of the word Oost-Azië was wrong:

[4] The next step was to change hyphenation back again to Proximity:

And now, finally, hyphenation of the selected word changed to the expected result!

And that without closing the Preferences panel with OK:

The crazy thing: After I had the right result with text hyphenation I could switch back the language of the dictionary to German: 2006 Reform without changing the hyphenation again.

So the expected hyphenation needed a kick by changing the language of the dictionary at least once. Together with a change of hyphenation to Proximity in the Preferences.

This behavior could hardly fell under category "good user experience".

That's a bug.

FWIW: As a last step I saved the document with a new name, closed it, opened it again and hyphenation of Oost-Azië was still alright.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

//EDITED

What is the language of your text? In both British and American English hyphens are only at the end of the first line:

... so-

called ...