Zero-width joiner

The wide loose connector (english zero width joiner, short SMY ) is a control character in the computer record. This character serves the left and right of the signs explicitly connect to a ligature, or a letter display in a display variant that is usually chosen in word only inside. The counterpart is preventing the wide loose connector or non- binding inhibitors, the ligatures. No influence has this control character to the newline.

Use

Use is the wide loose connector together with the binding inhibitor in writings such as Arabic, in which the characters of a word to connect with each other and thus occur depending on the position in different glyphs. In the representation of Indian writings in the Unicode wide loose connector can be used to a dead consonant in the half-mold (see inherent vowel) represent.

Coding

In Unicode, the wide loose connector located on the code point U 200 D in Unicode block General Punctuation. In HTML, it can be used as are shown.

Examples

The wide loose connector can be used to represent individual Arabic letters in a form that they would otherwise only assume in the word. Thus, the representation in the following two tables is correct, the web browser must be used correctly implementing the algorithms for the display of Arabic to Unicode.

A combination with the binding inhibitor ( ZWNJ ) may be useful:

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A symbol for use on keyboards and in descriptions of standardization of Amendment 1 (2012 ) to ISO / IEC 9995-7:2009, " Information technology - Keyboard layouts for text and office systems - Symbols used to represent functions" as a symbol 82, as well as in IEC 60417 "Graphical Symbols for use on Equipment " as a symbol IEC 60417-6177-2.