Zero-width space

The broad -free spaces (English zero- width space, abbreviated ZWSP ) is a control character in the digital set to mark a word boundary by a distance which is generally not visible. Although there is no space, is here in German and other languages ​​, the term "space" - or its equivalents - for the name of this control character used.

Description

In the electronic text processing, the breadthless space allows a line break at suitable locations which are not selected by a space. It is used regularly in writing systems that words can not always settle by spaces, such as Thai.

Useful breadthless the space is also a micro -blogging service like Twitter, to hang a genitive -s to a user name or a hashtag without a space would be visible or an apostrophe is needed. So can be obtained with this character, the basic shape of the user name or the hashtag. (Example: to be set in a tweet from "@ Peters bike " the speech, a broad -free space behind the base form of the user name "@ Peter" is added then remains genitive -s the name obtained before as it is right here.. Without the breadthless space before the s talks "@ Peters " a different user name, namely "@ Peters ." Then the user would get "Peter" of the tweet most likely nothing to do with and also might know not what anyone wanted to tell differently about his bike to him. ) The same applies for the use in compound words.

Code of broad -free space character: U 200 B zero width space (Unicode ), corresponding to (HTML).

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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 87, as well as in IEC 60417 "Graphical Symbols for use on Equipment " as a symbol IEC 60417-6177-10.