Why the word "Com­ment" is rendered as is in Chrome? No soft hyphen

Question

I have an html snippet:

<label class="col-xs-2 col-lg-2 control-label" for="param_comment">Com&shy;ment</label>

and it renders as:

Com­ment

in Chrome v.29

I expected:

Comment

What is wrong with the soft hyphen?

Update:

I meant:

<label class="col-xs-2 col-lg-2 control-label" for="param_comment">Com&shy;ment</label>

Update 2:

I think it was an SLIM fault: I had:

 = label_tag(:"param_comment", "Com­ment", class: "control-label")

now changed to:

 = label_tag(:"param_comment", "Com­ment".html_safe, class: "control-label")

So the .html_safe helps.

But is it possible to do the same without ruby code?

Answer 1

The HTML snippet posted contains Com­ment, so it works as defined. Use Com­ment instead (or enter the soft hyphen as a character, U+00AD: Com­ment).