Template talk:Zero width joiner

I updated the code from U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE to U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER (‍) Several points:

1. U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE is deprecated;^[1] according to the current copy of Space (punctuation) it was deprecated as of Unicode 3.2
2. Unicode seems to favor U+2060 WORD JOINER as an alternative
3. However, practical considerations gave me other thoughts:
   • Most people can't seem to be able to keep track of the difference between "it's" and "its". They'll probably go with whatever Wiki nerds say.
   • “Word joiner” didn't look too good on the comparison on this chart, and seemed to be the opposite of what ZWNBSP was.
   • “Word joiner” has no obvious counterpart; U+200C ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER (‌)
     Preview warning: Template:Unichar unknown parameter "decimal"
     exists already. Setting up "Zero-width joiner" is more logical.

(As a template editor/gnome) I had been considering this page for deletion because of its lack of use. However I see potential here, and think we just haven't ‘linked up’ the template namespace yet (which I've taken upon myself to do). And if people can remember ‍ offhand, that's fine; we'll simply delete this template. But for now I think it has potential, so this can be thought of as a one-person "Templates for deletion discussion"; Result: Keep.

My next plan of action is to move this page to "Template:Zwj" and to update the documentation. The state of the web is pretty messed up. I think simplicity is in order.

Anyway, that's my two cents. meteor_sandwich_yum (talk) 02:45, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]