ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE

Codepoint

U+FEFF

Literal Character



Name

ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE

Sketch

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Aliases

BOM, ZWNBSP

Control Character

no

Block

Arabic Presentation Forms-B

Subblock

Special

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>