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jakear

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.

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

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.

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?

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