Re: [css-text] Control characters

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is "ugly and confusing", IMO, is when browsers display the data
>
>   <U+0048 U+0001 U+0065 U+0002 U+006C U+0003 U+006C U+0004 U+006F>
>
> such that it appears to read "Hello", yet when a user searches for the
> string "Hello" they'll fail to find it; it will be indexed separately; it
> will be mangled by screen-readers; etc., etc.

The same happens with a bunch of invisible non-control characters,
though.  Slip a ZWNJ somewhere in there and you'll get the same
effect.

You might have a consistent policy about these things that dictates
that the control characters are bad but other invisible characters are
fine, though.

~TJ