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UNI-018 · Invisibles

WJ

Zero width, zero breaks: the link that binds without taking up room.

The word joiner is the inverse of the zero width space: where that one authorizes the break, this one forbids it — adding no blank at all. An arrow or a symbol glued to its number cross the line together.

It inherited the trade from U+FEFF, which doubled as the BOM; since Unicode 3.2, binding without width is U+2060's job. The named entity is ⁠.

Loose:    x → y           (the arrow may be orphaned at the break)
With WJ:  x⁠→⁠y   (no width, no break)
The link that neither shows nor snaps.