Discretionary hyphens turn into dashes

[Eugenia_Butko]

Illustrator turns discretionary hyphens into dashes. It happens not only in new files, but also in old files.
When I open old files, the texts become spoiled. All the discretionary hyphens turn into dashes in the middle of lines.
Example:

Illustrator 2022 the last version, Windows 10 Pro

(Sorry for my English))

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Can confirm. Same issue on 26.0.1 on a Mac.

[Ton Frederiks]

Looks like a bug, please report it here:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com

[Eugenia_Butko]

Thank you for the link. Found this bug there, voted for it )

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/44476008-discre...

[Ton Frederiks]

And so did I.

[Monika Gause]

Currently using version 26.0.1 in English on an English system, I cannot reproduce that behaviour.

Could you perhaps share some more details of how to reproduce it?

[Eugenia_Butko]

Illustrator 26.0.1 (64-bit) Russian version, Russian system. 

It happens to all discr. hypens, when opening old documents and also when creating a text in new document and inserting discr. hypen. In texts in Russian and in English. 

[Eugenia_Butko]

hyphen )

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

My system: Mac CC2022 v26.0.1 English

Sample Illustrator file attached. Words in Red have an inserted discretionary hyphen. Added two ways: using keyboard shortcut and also selecting special character menu.

Open in CC2021 (or earlier), it's fine

[Ton Frederiks]

And when the discretionary hyphen is active at the right side of the textbox, it turns into a double hyphen.

[Eugenia_Butko]

By the way, I remember that until recently there was no shortcut for discretionary hyphen in Illustrator, only in InDesign. Maybe this upgrade is the reason of the bug.

[Ton Frederiks]

The shortcut was there at least since 2017.

[Eugenia_Butko]

Do you talk about Windows system? It`s so strange for me to hear it. I mostly work in InDesign and use its shortcuts widely. Working in Illustrator I always first press ID shortcut for discr. hyphen on habit — nothing happens — sh*t)) — right click for menu to insert special character ) And only recently I noticed it began to work.  

[Eugenia_Butko]

I'm sorry! I mixed up! My thoughts are all in these hyphens and dashes. And I haven`t worked in Illustrator for a long time. I meant unbreakable space (ctrl+alt+X). I`m sorry, please forget it)))

[Ton Frederiks]

I have already forgotten it 🙂

[Monika Gause]

OK, thank you - now I get it.

I think I got the problem wrong. I was thinking that Illustrator converts the automatically inserted hyphens into real ones.

[Eugenia_Butko]

When you select this glyph, it is identified as U+00ad in the Table of glyphs, i.e. as discretionary hyphen. It is marked as discretionary hyphen with unprintable character (blue dash). It is copy+pasted into InDesign as invisible discretionary hyphen. So it does not change its type) Mystery)