ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE character

ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE
U+FEFF
65279


BYTE ORDER MARK
Cf (Format Character)
BN (Boundary Neutral)
N
0
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF













ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE is a format control character from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE is Boundary Neutral (Weak). It belongs to the invisible formatting characters that are invisible to the bi-di algorithm..

The Boundary Neutral (BN) bidi class includes characters that do not have an inherent directionality and do not affect the directionality of adjacent characters. These are typically format characters that serve structural roles in text but are not visible. BN characters are crucial for maintaining text structure without influencing the overall direction of text flows.

Format (Cf) refers to characters that affect the formatting of text without being displayed themselves. These characters control the behavior of text in ways such as directionality, joining, and spacing, ensuring that the text appears correctly in different contexts.

This character belongs to the Arabic Presentation Forms-B block. The Arabic Presentation Forms-B block contains additional ligatures, contextual forms, and other characters used in the Arabic script. Like the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, this block is essential for the proper rendering of Arabic text, particularly in calligraphy and stylistic typography. The block includes more specialized ligatures and forms, ensuring that even the most intricate Arabic scripts can be accurately represented in digital text, supporting the full range of Arabic literary and religious works..