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[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 15:19:59 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
>> I'm wary of magical characters because they may end up in text 
>> copied by the user. For example, what if someone posts a code 
>> sample that contains a long string of alphanumerics?
>
> It depends on where you paste it. Copying a string containing a 
> zero-width space and pasting it in TextMate results in a 
> visible space. If I instead paste it in TextEdit there's no 
> visible space. I tried a few other applications as well and 
> there was no visible space in those.

Yes, but will the code from our hypothetical example still 
compile and work as it should?