Using ZWNJ ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER in practice

James Kass jameskass at code2001.com
Fri May 28 17:39:28 CDT 2021


On 2021-05-28 7:04 AM, Jukka K. Korpela via Unicode wrote:
> And it is typical intended use for ZWNJ to break a character pair so that
> a ligature is not used for.

Exac‍tly.

di‌stinctive ⇐ ZWNJ between i-s pair

But it should not be typical for the ZWNJ insertion to break spell 
checking.  Yet Mozilla Thunderbird error flags English words with either 
ZWNJ or ZWJ insertions.  (The word "Exactly" above has a ZWJ between the 
c-t pair.)



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