Hard hyphen and HTML validation

[Stacy Pober]

Has anyone found an HTML equivalent of the 'hard hyphen' i.e. a 
non-breaking dash?   I tried using the character code for the dash,
but the word still 'broke' in Internet Explorer if the line length
happened to be just right. 

I know that the <nobr></nobr> Nobreak codes work, but they cause
validation errors for HTML 4.01. 

OTOH, I probably shouldn't worry too much about those validation
errors.  I have come to the realization that some of our pages
will *always* produce coding errors because of ampersands or 
other unusual characters that are a part of some of our database
URL's.  

-- 
Stacy Pober
Information Alchemist
Manhattan College Libraries
Riverdale, NY 10471
http://www.manhattan.edu/library/