Re: Zero Width Space (was Re: How to print a literal '.' as the first character in a line?)

[Richard Morse]

> On Jun 5, 2022, at 1:37 AM, Dave Kemper <saint.snit@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> No one, including its inventor, seems fully happy with it, but there
> also hasn't been an alternate proposal that everyone is happy with.
> "Zero-width space" is a nonstarter for its Unicode clash.

Do any of these spark an idea?

- “processor instruction”
- “parser instruction”
- “meta-character”
- “meta-escape”
- “special input sequence”
- “separation escape”
- “no-op escape”

Ricky