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Invisible characters - ASCII

Are there any invisible characters? I have checked Google for invisible characters and ended up with many answers but I'm not sure about those. Can someone on Stack Overflow tell me more about this?

Also I have checked a profile on Facebook and found that the user didn't have any name to his profile? How can this be possible? Is it some database issue? Hacking or something?

When I searched over Internet, I found that 200D is an ASCII value with an invisible character. Is it true?

Solution

  • How a character is represented is up to the renderer, but the server may also strip out certain characters before sending the document.

    You can also have untitled YouTube videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmBvw8uPbrA by using the Unicode character ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER (U+200C), or ‌ in HTML. The code block below should contain that character:

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