ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE

Property Value
Codepoint U+FEFF
Literal Character 
Name ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE
Sketch
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Aliases BOM, ZWNBSP
Control Character no
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Subblock Extended Arabic letters
UTF-8 byte encoding ef bb bf
UTF-16 byte encoding fe ff (big endian)
HTML Entity 
Perl string literal \x{FEFF}
Comments
  • may be used to detect byte order by contrast with the noncharacter code point FFFE
  • use as an indication of non-breaking is deprecated; see 2060 instead
See Also U+200B: zero width space
U+2060: word joiner
U+FFFE: <not a character>