Re: U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE (0xe2 0x80 0x8b) in PostgreSQL documentation

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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Subject: Re: U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE (0xe2 0x80 0x8b) in PostgreSQL documentation
Date: 2023-08-10 21:59:02
Message-ID: 169307.1691704742@sss.pgh.pa.us
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PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> In official html documentation there are issue U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE (0xe2
> 0x80 0x8b) in text of some keywords, some identificators and some literals.
> When copy-pasting to the SQL command, an error occurs because of this.
> For example in page infoschema-administrable-role-authorizations.html on
> site
> (https://www.postgresql.org/account/comments/new/15/infoschema-administrable-role-authorizations.html/)

Yeah. Those are there to allow line breaks in the PDF output, which
would otherwise be too wide in those places. If you know a way to get
the XML toolchain to allow line breaks in PDF without putting
invisible characters into other formats, let us know.

regards, tom lane

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