# What does a word joiner do?

An invisible format character used to inhibit a line break at its position. Code points: U+2060. It does not create a visible gap and can be difficult to diagnose. No fallback is suggested. Font coverage, shaping, and application acceptance were not tested, so those results are unknown.

## Code points

- U+2060 WORD JOINER

## What was checked

### Word joiner

An invisible format character used to inhibit a line break at its position.

It does not create a visible gap and can be difficult to diagnose.

Remove it to restore ordinary breaking; test the target layout.

## What this does not prove

No OS, font, browser, application, field policy or rendering engine was tested. Unicode validity and segmentation do not establish actual display or acceptance.

Unicode release recorded with this answer: 18.0.0.
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