Bug #66196 [Com]: Invalid Entity Number - 8203

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66196&edit=1 ID: 66196 Comment by: francois dot gannaz at silecs dot info Reported by: akauffman at ne4u dot com Summary: Invalid Entity Number - 8203 Status: Open Type: Bug Package: Website problem Operating System: Linux PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: AFAIK, the "zero width space" may appear as an "unknown character" in some browsers, this is not incorrect regarding the Unicode specification. It may also be displayed as a space in other cases, like justified text. There are aternatives to the entity &#8203; that fix this wrong behaviour, at least with Opera/Linux. They are more portable than the current numerical entity. 1. Use the tag <wbr> (official since HTML5, but cross-browser since a long time, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/wbr ). 2. Use a soft hyphen &shy; (this changes slightly the behaviour, as a hyphen will appear when the word is split). Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-12-04 17:31:10] aharvey@php.net Related To: Bug #66233 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-11-29 00:36:24] phpmpan at mpan dot pl I believe this belongs to Opera's bug tracker, as this is neither bug in PHP nor in PHP's website. "Official W3C entities" refer to named entities, not character codes. #8203 is a valid code for character U+200B (which should not be rendered at all, so it's not a typeface issue). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-11-28 22:25:33] akauffman at ne4u dot com Description: ------------ Since entity number 8203 is not an official W3C entity (reference: http://htmlentities.net/html/entities/) it does not render properly in some browsers (shows up as a box with an X). Test script: --------------- Use Opera in Linux to test. Ex: http://us1.php.net/manual/en/function.array-diff-assoc.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66196&edit=1