Re: Unicode "no-op" Character?

From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 01:59:16 +0100

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 23:56:11 +0000
Shawn Steele via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:

> Assuming you were using any of those characters as "markup", how
> would you know when they were intentionally in the string and not
> part of your marking system?

If they're conveying an invisible message, one would have to strip out
original ZWNBSP/WJ/ZWSP that didn't affect line-breaking. The weak
point is that that assumes that line-break opportunities are
well-defined. For example, they aren't for SE Asian text.

Richard.
Received on Sat Jun 22 2019 - 19:59:37 CDT

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