[tdwg-content] canonical name for named hybrid &infragenericnames [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Paul Murray]

On 14/12/2010, at 4:44 AM, Bob Morris wrote:

> Oooh! I propose the invisible space 0x00  :-)


Didn't Phil Collins do a song about that?

The zero-width space is unicode \u200B, html ​ or ​ . Hence (hopefully this will come though correctly in the mail):

&#x00d7;&#8203;<i>Agropogon</i> P.Fourn.

×​Agropogon P.Fourn.

If you copy that text into an editor and step through the letters, you'll find the invisible space. It works fine, but it does mean that anything consuming the text and parsing it into words has to be aware of unicode spaces beyond the usual ascii control characters.

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