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I've dealt with zero width characters on Windows causing problems in a variety of situations; all appear to have originated by copying something from SharePoint
by adzm 9y ago
I've dealt with zero width characters on Windows causing problems in a variety of situations; all appear to have originated by copying something from SharePoint or Lync / Skype4business. It was included in a SQL query, causing it to fail to parse. Another time, one ended up somehow getting into a database field which then created filesystem paths containing the character, which was a much trickier one to figure out.
- bmaupin 9y agoAt one of my jobs we used SharePoint for documentation and I would constantly have issues with it inserting zero width characters, particularly when pasting into a terminal. I finally got tired of it and wrote a small Chrome plugin that copies text without those characters.