WATERMARK SLAYER
zero-width non-joiner
A language-sensitive shaping control reported without changing the source.
Last reviewed
Registry facts
- Code point or framing
- U+200C
- Launch support
- report-only
- Launch action
report- Risk
- high
- Explicit writer selection required
- no
- Visible review label
- [zero-width non-joiner]
- Fixture
fixture_report_u200c- Last fixture test
Why it may appear legitimately
Writers and software use it intentionally in Persian, Arabic, Indic, and other shaped writing systems.
- Persian, Arabic, Indic, and other shaped text
Launch behavior
Registry status: report-only. Watermark Slayer reports this observation and does not propose a cleanup edit.
What a change could affect
Removing it can alter spelling and glyph joining.
- Removal can alter spelling or glyph shaping.
Claim boundary
Finding this artifact says only that the specified code point or framing was observed. It is not an authorship verdict, detector score, or evidence that text came from a particular system.