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I have discovered that when I copy the zero-width joiner (Unicode 200D) from
Word and try to paste it into another app, Word strips that character out of
the string. If I examine the RTF version of the data on the clipboard, the
rtf tag for that character is present, but it is missing from all other
formats. Even if I paste it right back into Word with Paste Special -
Unformatted Unicode Text, the character is gone. I see that Tools, Options
provides a few different ways to customize the behavior of the Copy command,
but none of them seems to affect this. Is this a bug, or is there some
existing work-around? Copying U+200D in other apps (including, for example MS
Excel) seems to work fine, so apparently Microsoft went to special effort to
code Word this way.
Word and try to paste it into another app, Word strips that character out of
the string. If I examine the RTF version of the data on the clipboard, the
rtf tag for that character is present, but it is missing from all other
formats. Even if I paste it right back into Word with Paste Special -
Unformatted Unicode Text, the character is gone. I see that Tools, Options
provides a few different ways to customize the behavior of the Copy command,
but none of them seems to affect this. Is this a bug, or is there some
existing work-around? Copying U+200D in other apps (including, for example MS
Excel) seems to work fine, so apparently Microsoft went to special effort to
code Word this way.