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Somewhere someone is adding long lines of BOMs just so if someone else adds long lines of BOMs it gets flagged as plagiarism.

I hope it returns the copied string.

String "" is plagiarised

Interesting. You could presumably also swap out characters for homoglyphs at random.

The original creator of the first zero width space had to be evil.

It has uses in typesetting, e.g. for allowing a word to be broken.

So what's the point of a zero width nonbreaking space then? seeing as that also exists.

Used e.g. to avoid awkward linebreaks

You can surely also use no character at all to replace a zero width nonbreaking space for that use case though, or am I missing some subtlety here?

Wow, this is pretty nifty and I would, nor would the program authors thing of that use case :D