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another good one to sneak in there... thai zero-width space: U+200B
cant see it, nothing reads it, and it makes everything error. : D
Came here to say fuck the zero width space. I spent 90 hours in the depths of solr looking for this fucker who brought down our entire search index.
I deal with shy hyphens a lot. They don’t display unless there’s a line break, so they get copied from various word docs or websites and end up in a database somewhere waiting to piss me off.
Yup