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What was the original purpose for these characters' design?
by et2o 9y ago
What was the original purpose for these characters' design?
- throw_away 9y agoU+200B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space U+200C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner
- kqr 9y agoI use the zero width no break space with formatting languages to format only parts of words. Something like _rest_ful to render the first part in small caps may not work while _rest_ ful will, of course but renders as two words. Replacing the space with a zero width no break space solves that.
- JepZ 9y agoMost certainly HTML layout hacks, like 'I want to create a table with line height but zero width' ;-) (just kidding)