U+200B Zero Width Space
U+200B was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Format and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Boundary Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+200B behaves as Zero Width Space regarding line breaks. It has type Format for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Control.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The zero-width space (), abbreviated ZWSP, is a non-printing character used in computerized typesetting to indicate word boundaries to text-processing systems in scripts that do not use explicit spacing, or after characters (such as the slash) that are not followed by a visible space but after which there may nevertheless be a line break. It is also used with languages without visible space between words, for example, Japanese. Normally, it is not a visible separation, but it may expand in passages that are fully justified.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 8203 |
UTF-8 | E2 80 8B |
UTF-16 | 20 0B |
UTF-32 | 00 00 20 0B |
URL-Quoted | %E2%80%8B |
HTML hex reference | ​ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ​ |
HTML named entity | ​ |
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HTML named entity | ​ |
abbreviation | ZWSP |
Adobe Glyph List | zerowidthspace |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
ZERO WIDTH SPACE | |
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General Punctuation | |
Format | |
Common | |
Boundary Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
None | |
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Control | |
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0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
✘ | |
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Format | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Transparent | |
Zero Width Space | |
None | |
not a number | |
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