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0 pointsthrowaway2903y ago0 comments

It has uses in typesetting, e.g. for allowing a word to be broken.

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So what's the point of a zero width nonbreaking space then? seeing as that also exists.

Used e.g. to avoid awkward linebreaks

You can surely also use no character at all to replace a zero width nonbreaking space for that use case though, or am I missing some subtlety here?

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0 pointsthrowaway2903y ago0 comments

It has uses in typesetting, e.g. for allowing a word to be broken.

Doxin3y ago

So what's the point of a zero width nonbreaking space then? seeing as that also exists.

Used e.g. to avoid awkward linebreaks

Doxin3y ago

You can surely also use no character at all to replace a zero width nonbreaking space for that use case though, or am I missing some subtlety here?

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