Unicode Character 'ZERO WIDTH SPACE (ZWSP)' (U+200B)

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ZERO WIDTH SPACE (ZWSP)

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ZERO WIDTH SPACE (ZWSP)

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Unicode Data
Name ZERO WIDTH SPACE (ZWSP)
Block General Punctuation
Category Other, Format [Cf]
Script Common (Zyyy)
Combine 0
BIDI Boundary Neutral [BN]
Index entries SPACE, ZERO WIDTH
ZERO WIDTH SPACE
zwsp
Comments commonly abbreviated ZWSP
this character is intended for invisible word separation and for line break control; it has no width, but its presence between two characters does not prevent increased letter spacing in justification
Version Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993)
Encodings
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HTML Entity (named) ​: ​
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How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +200B
UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x80 0x8B (e2808b)
UTF-8 (binary) 11100010:10000000:10001011
UTF-16 (hex) 0x200B (200b)
UTF-16 (decimal) 8,203
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000200B (200B)
UTF-32 (decimal) 8,203
C/C++/Java source code "\u200B"
Python source code u"\u200B"
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Java Data
string.toUpperCase()
string.toLowerCase()
Character.UnicodeBlock GENERAL_PUNCTUATION
Character.charCount() 1
Character.getDirectionality() DIRECTIONALITY_BOUNDARY_NEUTRAL [9]
Character.getNumericValue() -1
Character.getType() 16
Character.isDefined() Yes
Character.isDigit() No
Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() Yes
Character.isISOControl() No
Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() No
Character.isLetter() No
Character.isLetterOrDigit() No
Character.isLowerCase() No
Character.isMirrored() No
Character.isSpaceChar() No
Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() No
Character.isTitleCase() No
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() Yes
Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() No
Character.isUpperCase() No
Character.isValidCodePoint() Yes
Character.isWhitespace() No