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"The zero-width space [...] is a non-printing character used fin computerized typesetting to indicate word boundaries to text processing systems when using scripts that do not use explicit spacing" - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So a workaround? -
@ScriptCoded Yes. google took me there.
Any reason why a (fucking) normal (fucking) space would not work? What dumbass usecase other then annoying the world of programming (and more important, me!) was the this fuckery good for??? -
@halfflat wat? The Japanese have normal spaces, same as the whole world!
"machine parsing space"! without normal spaces is just fukin idiotic! srsly!
use a normal space ffs! -
@Demolishun I agree. but that shit ain't white - (danger of sounding racist here).
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@magicMirror Ooh, is there git commit tied to it? You might have seen the moment someone pasted code from a website like SO and it had some messed up whitespace chars in there.
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@Demolishun no. The other dev sent me a small poc code he wrote, zipped on his mac. On his laptop the thing compiled. on my laptop - not so much.
@halfflat and yes, the japanese can use spaces, or not for all I care. No reason to inflict this sheer idiocy on the rest of the literate world.
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