What does zero-width space mean?

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zero-width space

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English

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zero-width spaces (plural)

zero-width non-joiner

ZWNJ zero-width non-joiner em space en space no-break space thick space thin space word space

ZWSP

What does zero-width space mean?: A control character indicating where a line break may occur.

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