Zero-width spaces (ZWSP) HTML characters are not displayed in the HTML tab

Question

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 2359

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. navigate to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space
2. inspect the paragraph containing antidisestablishmentarianism​ (repeated
many times)
3. notice that the ZWSP characters in the HTML are not shown in the HTML
source (tab)

What is the expected result? What do you see instead?
The HTML ZWSP characters should be displayed in the HTML source (tab)

Which version of Firebug? (more specific than latest please): 1.4.2
Which version of Firefox? 3.0.14
On what operating system? WinXP SP3


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work on bugs without one.

Reported by davidsmerrill on 2009-09-30 23:18:17

该提问来源于开源项目：firebug/firebug

Answer 1

1. navigate to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space
2. Use Firefox > View > PageSource to open a window of the source code
2. inspect the paragraph containing antidisestablishmentarianism​ (repeated
many times)
3. notice that the ZWSP characters in the HTML are not shown in the HTML
source for this web page.

Do you have another test case?

Reported by johnjbarton.com on 2009-10-01 04:37:10 - Status changed: NeedInfo