🔗 Unicode Zero-Width Characters

The Beauty of Unicode: Zero-Width Characters Did you know that there are five characters that have zero width? What could be their purpose? Let’s sort it out… See examples in the linked article. Zero-width space (U+200B) The zero-width space can be used to enable line wrapping in long words, when using languages that don’t use spaces to separate words, or after certain characters like a slash /. Most applications treat the zero-width space like a regular space for word wrapping purposes, even though it is not visible....

December 20, 2023 · 2 min · 276 words