We are using soft hyphens in a text paragraph on a web page to improve the layout, since the number of long words in the text is unusually high. Unfortunately, this causes the text search (Ctrl+F) in Internet Explorer to fail. It does not find the words with soft hyphens, unless the soft hyphens are entered at the correct place in the search dialog.
Does someone have an idea for at least some kind of workaround (IE8 would suffice) or is the only way to provide search functionality on such a page to implement everything (matching and result highlighting) e.g. in JavaScript?