The Hidden Character
Posted: July 5, 2009 Filed under: NEZzen Leave a comment »Quite an interesting discovery I recently made: there is a hidden character code used to tell in a Unicode file which byte-order multibyte characters have. Basically the character is invisible (“zero-width and non-breaking”) to most editors, which is why it is sometimes useful for other things, such as floating an item to the top of a sorted list. The hex code of this invisible character is #FEFF or #FFFE and can be written in HTML using an escape sequence such as . Use with caution.
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