Just out of curiosity: I noticed today that the navigation links on the left-hand column of dlang.org have U+200B inserted after "."'s (such as after "std."). What's the reason for this?

Incidentally, my browser is displaying it as an unknown character (a browser bug, probably, or a screwed-up font) but I'm just curious about why this is needed here. Shouldn't it just be straight ASCII, like "std.algorithm" instead of "std.<U+200B>algorithm"?


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On 2012-09-17 04:57, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Just out of curiosity: I noticed today that the navigation links on the
> left-hand column of dlang.org have U+200B inserted after "."'s (such as
> after "std."). What's the reason for this?
>
> Incidentally, my browser is displaying it as an unknown character (a
> browser bug, probably, or a screwed-up font) but I'm just curious about
> why this is needed here. Shouldn't it just be straight ASCII, like
> "std.algorithm" instead of "std.<U+200B>algorithm"?

I suggested adding zero-with space characters to allow the browser breaking long links on multiple lines. This makes the experience on mobile devices a lot better.

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/Jacob Carlborg