Zero-width space
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The zero-width space (rendered: ; HTML entity: or ), abbreviated ZWSP, is a non-printing character used in computerized typesetting to indicate where the word boundaries are, without actually displaying a visible space in the rendered text. This enables text-processing systems for scripts that do not use explicit spacing to recognize where word boundaries are for the purpose of handling line breaks appropriately. The zero-width space is Unicode character U+200B , and is located in the Unicode General Punctuation block. In HTML, it can be represented by the character entity reference .
The zero-width space (rendered: ; HTML entity: or ), abbreviated ZWSP, is a non-printing character used in computerized typesetting to indicate where the word boundaries are, without actually displaying a visible space in the rendered text. This enables text-processing systems for scripts that do not use explicit spacing to recognize where word boundaries are for the purpose of handling line breaks appropriately. The zero-width space is Unicode character U+200B , and is located in the Unicode General Punctuation block. In HTML, it can be represented by the character entity reference . By contrast, the following words have not been separated: The first text is broken into lines but only at word boundaries, and resizing the browser window will re-break the text accordingly, while the second text is not broken at all.
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