# Khmer Unicode Zero Width Space disappears after posting

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/khmer-unicode-zero-width-space-disappears-after-posting/26260>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [12 Marzo 2015, 12:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/khmer-unicode-zero-width-space-disappears-after-posting/26260 "2015-03-12T12:25:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![lidel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lidel/32/115991_2.png) [@lidel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lidel)\
**Post date:** [26 Marzo 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/khmer-unicode-zero-width-space-disappears-after-posting/26260/16 "2015-03-26T22:45:32Z")

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@sam, I was able to replicate the issue this way:

I copied sample from:

> **[Zero-width space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space)**
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> The zero-width space (rendered: .mw-parser-output .mw-tmpl-kbd{background:#EEE;color:var(--color-base)}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .mw-tmpl-kbd{background:#171a1d}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .mw-tmpl-kbd{background:#171a1d}}​; HTML entity: &ZeroWidthSpace; or &#8203;), abbreviated ZWSP, is a non-printing character used in computerized typesetting to indicate where the word boundaries are, witho...

and pasted here:

> Word Word Word

After each _Word_ you should find one zero-width space (U+200B).

Discourse displayed ‘WordWordWord’ correctly in preview pane (separated with U+200B), but after I posted this, I saw that it got cooked/refreshed and this operation replaced ‘WordWordWord’ with ‘Word Word Word’.

So indeed, Discourse replaces U+200B with real space ☹

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