> On May 21, 2018, at 4:16 PM, @lbutlr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 21 May 2018, at 15:14, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On May 20, 2018, at 4:38 PM, @lbutlr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I am trying to copy the zero width space from the character viewer and I 
>>> don’t seem to be able to do so, I can copy the entire character info, but I 
>>> can’t get just the character.
>>> 
>>> ​
>>> ZERO WIDTH SPACE
>>> Unicode: U+200B, UTF-8: E2 80 8B
> 
>> I couldn't find a "zero width space" in the Emoji & Symbols character table 
>> (doubtless owing to its amazingly awkward organization), but I did find an 
>> invisible "word joiner" (Punctuation-All, 5th column, 5th row from bottom) 
>> that inserted itself nicely between the two e's in "see" (above) when I 
>> double-clicked it.  It may or may not survive the mail, but as I type this I 
>> can arrow over the word and see definitively that there is something 
>> invisible there.
> 
> I am talking about the specific ZWS 200B. Which has nothing to do with Emojis.

Choosing "Emoji & Symbols" in the Edit menu of most any app is the fastest way 
to bring up the same character palette you apparently got some other way.  See? 
 You learned something.

> You can find it by typing “zero width” in the find field of the character 
> palette.
> 
> It will show three characters (but they are invisible, you have to click in 
> the space they should be)
> 
> ZERO WIDTH SPACE, ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER, and ZERO WIDTH JOINER
> 
> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/usyy3x0v3zcv1qr/Screenshot%202018-05-21%2017.15.41.png?dl=0>

Again, due to the awkward UI it wasn't clear to me that their search function 
worked for multi-character strings, it just kept showing me "z" (it was also 
damn slow).  

Still, when I double-clicked the icon for the ZWS, it happily inserted it at 
the current cursor position in the open ap​p.  You will find the ZWS between 
the two p's in "app" in the previous sentence.

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