U+FEFF
ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE - it’s name suggests, that it can be used like U+2060 WORD JOINER. And in fact the latter was introduced to inherit its semantics. This is because U+FEFF had become a special beacon called the byte order mark, that was placed on the beginning of some…
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U+200B codepoints.net
ZERO WIDTH SPACE - the inverse to U+00A0: create no space, but allow word breaking.
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U+200D codepoints.net
ZERO WIDTH JOINER - force adjacent characters to be joined together (e.g., arabic characters or supported emoji). Apple uses this to compose some emoji like different families.
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U+00A0 codepoints.net
NO-BREAK SPACE - force adjacent characters to stick together. Well known as in HTML.
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U+2060 codepoints.net
WORD JOINER - the same as U+00A0, but completely invisible. Good for writing @font-face on Twitter.
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U+00AD codepoints.net
SOFT HYPHEN - (in HTML: ­) like ZERO WIDTH SPACE, but show a hyphen if (and only if) a break occurs.
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Code Points › Standalone Code Points: “ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE - it’s name suggests, that it can be used like U+2060 WORD JOINER. And in fact the latter was introduced to inherit its semantics. This is because U+FEFF had become a special beacon called the byte order mark, that was placed on the beginning of some…”