> ​
I’m curious how that ended up the entity name for U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE.
Wikipedia says¹:
> Although `​` is one HTML5 named entity for U+200B, the additional names `NegativeMediumSpace`, `NegativeThickSpace`, `NegativeThinSpace` and `NegativeVeryThinSpace` (which are names used in the Wolfram Language for negative-advance spaces, which it maps to the Private Use Area) are also defined by HTML5 as aliases for U+200B (e.g. `​`).
Following links, it looks like somebody went through a bunch of mathematics software looking for all the symbol names somebody might be used to, so they could be added to the official list of named entities.
¹: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_character_property#Whi...
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