Zero-width character detection and removal for Go. Inspired by this Medium article.
go get github.com/trubitsyn/go-zero-width
package main
import (
"github.com/trubitsyn/go-zero-width"
"fmt"
)
func main() {
login := "abcdef" // zero-width space between "c" and "d"
clean := zerowidth.RemoveZeroWidthCharacters(login) // a b c d e f
fmt.Printf("% x\n", login) // 61 62 63 e2 80 8b 64 65 66
fmt.Printf("% x\n", clean) // 61 62 63 64 65 66
}
- Zero-width space (U+200B)
- Zero-width no-break space (U+FEFF)
- Zero-width joiner (U+200D)
- Zero-width non-joiner (U+200C)
go get -t github.com/trubitsyn/go-zero-width
go test github.com/trubitsyn/go-zero-width
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