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That makes more sense. I'm sure there could be some language out there where a empty strings length could be 7.

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Not sure if HN will handle it, but this empty string's length is 7: ' '

( '\u200b'.repeat(7) )

Edit: HN does not, in fact, handle it.

HN does, in fact, handle it, and chose to discard it.

In the CIA since of "we need to handle these democratically elected leaders", perhaps.

But if I was selling you a drop-in comment widget and boasted "it handles all of Unicode", but really I was just running s/[^ -~]+/ /g, wouldn't you feel a bit let down?

You need to use the latest and greatest:

Awww dang they updated the filter, booo

You can remove the word "they" from your comment and it'll still work for this site.

I have to admit, I gave that thought a bit too much time before I clicked the link and discovered what the title should have said

Based on the title, I assumed it was gonna be something about smart quotes, and I thought, "of course, another reason to hate smart quotes!"

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