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Zero Width Joiner

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  • Similarly, there have been miles and miles of mail on inserting control characters for joiners and non-joiners in Unicode in order to produce typographic ligatures which is meaningless because according to ISO-IEC 10646, Zero Width Joiner and Zero Width Non-Joiner cannot be ignored in searching and sorting, so inserting these control characters kills content-based operations.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2008

  • Postfixing the abbreviations for the international standard metric system is not allowed, for instance, mm for millimeter. according to ISO-IEC 10646, Zero Width Joiner and Zero Width Non-Joiner cannot be ignored in searching and sorting, so inserting these control characters kills content-based operations.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2008

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  • Zero Width Joiner, n.

    Emojipedia, 11 December 2015:

    ZWJ Sequences. Zero Width Joiner sequences are a strange beast. They basically come into the world when a vendor decides to introduce one, and with no formal approval required, what we have seen in 2015 has been: * Apple releases an iOS update with new ZWJ emojis

    December 13, 2015