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PHP replace Zero Width Space using preg_replace
<?php
/**
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11305797/remove-zero-width-space-characters-from-a-javascript-string
* U+200B zero width space
* U+200C zero width non-joiner Unicode code point
* U+200D zero width joiner Unicode code point
* U+FEFF zero width no-break space Unicode code point
*/
$text = preg_replace( '/[\x{200B}-\x{200D}]/u', '', $text );
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