# 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:** [Mars 12, 2015, 12:25 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:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [Mars 27, 2015, 2:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/khmer-unicode-zero-width-space-disappears-after-posting/26260/18 "2015-03-27T02:03:54Z")

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AHA I can see why this is happening

@zogstrip added this …

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f4208ae83fd43e0cdd663d82a73fabfb65f327bb](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f4208ae83fd43e0cdd663d82a73fabfb65f327bb)

This is actually a case of us being too smart for our own good. It was added as a system to avoid people “gaming” edits and bypassing rules. However it is totally not really acceptable that we break formatting here, so I patched it with:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/58c95f64d2887134604b8024afb0d673c48f433f](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/58c95f64d2887134604b8024afb0d673c48f433f)

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