Op zaterdag 22 juni 2019 02:14 schreef Sławomir Osipiuk via Unicode:
Does Unicode include a character that does nothing at all? I'm talking about something that can be used for padding data without affecting interpretation of other characters, including combining chars and ligatures. I.e. a character that could hypothetically be inserted between a latin E and a combining acute and still produce É. The historical description of U+0016 SYNCHRONOUS IDLE seems like pretty much exactly what I want. It only has one slight disadvantage: it doesn't work. All software I've tried displays it as an unknown character and it definitely breaks up combinations. And U+0000 NULL seems even worse.
DEL was used as such on papertape to replace errors. Alex.
