# You can use zero width spaces to make a (seemingly) five character title
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-use-zero-width-spaces-to-make-a-seemingly-five-character-title/80911
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 19, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-use-zero-width-spaces-to-make-a-seemingly-five-character-title/80911 "2018-02-19T00:27:46Z")
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### Author:  [@Nindroid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nindroid)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-use-zero-width-spaces-to-make-a-seemingly-five-character-title/80911/1 "2018-02-19T00:27:46Z")
Hi. This isn’t really a bug (or a problem, really), and I don’t see any other categories which make sense to me. So I’d appreciate it if someone can tell me where to put it. Thank you.
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You can get past the character limit of titles by using zero width spaces ().
This means that you can use something like “q wer” as a title, and it would work because it’s technically 18 characters.
Here’s an example:
[https://forum.gethopscotch.com/t/hi-bro/41491?u=nindroidgames](https://forum.gethopscotch.com/t/hi-bro/41491?u=nindroidgames)
(@JonnyGamer’s Topic. I made one a few weeks ago, but changed the title)
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EDIT: You can also do a similar thing with replies. I did that in this topic.
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Sorry if I shouldn’t have made this topic.
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### Author:  [@Nindroid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nindroid)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-use-zero-width-spaces-to-make-a-seemingly-five-character-title/80911/2 "2018-02-19T00:33:32Z")
Q w
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-use-zero-width-spaces-to-make-a-seemingly-five-character-title/80911/3 "2018-02-19T00:35:28Z")
This really isn’t a bug, people will always find ways of getting around these type of requirements, it is up to moderators/admins to then correct this behavior and establish it as not wanted.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2018, 9:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-use-zero-width-spaces-to-make-a-seemingly-five-character-title/80911/4 "2018-02-19T09:59:03Z")
I actually think we should check for this one @techapj as part of our standard title health checks, because a “blank” topic title is quite grief-y.
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### Author:  [@JonnyGamer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonnyGamer)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 4:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-use-zero-width-spaces-to-make-a-seemingly-five-character-title/80911/6 "2018-02-20T04:38:03Z")
Idk this just seems interesting:
_Poll ([view on site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-use-zero-width-spaces-to-make-a-seemingly-five-character-title/80911/6))_
Should I add more things you can do with the zero width, or no. I just discovered a few things
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 6:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-use-zero-width-spaces-to-make-a-seemingly-five-character-title/80911/7 "2018-02-20T06:03:22Z")
Don’t really care, if people do that we will suspend them.
Titles I am more worried about since titles are quite important to a discussion..
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-use-zero-width-spaces-to-make-a-seemingly-five-character-title/80911/8 "2018-02-20T19:11:37Z")
Added a check to strip zero width spaces from topic title.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a4bc54a6866c3c2aa38cc2a7d166c78b95905d7d](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/a4bc54a6866c3c2aa38cc2a7d166c78b95905d7d)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/you-can-use-zero-width-spaces-to-make-a-seemingly-five-character-title/80911/9 "2018-02-22T02:00:06Z")
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