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Issue
- Web content has zero-width spaces, which are adversely impacting search ranking.
- How to remove those invisible zero-width spaces?
Environment
- Liferay DXP 7.3+
Resolution
- Zero-width space (ZWSP) is a non-printing character used in computerized typesetting to indicate word boundaries where explicit spacing is not used.
- Sometimes, the ZWSP occurs from copying and pasting content from external sources.
- If the user wants to remove zero-width spaces from the content, they can utilize one of the online tools, i.e., unspoof-unicode-text
Warning: This is NOT an official Liferay tool, nor is it supported by Liferay in any way.
- Alternatively, manually typing the content instead of copying and pasting can prevent this zero width spaces.
Additional Information