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Remove confusing reference to UTF-8 in <wbr>#44326

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Whether the page is in UTF-8 or not makes no difference.

For example, with UTF-16, all of the following continue to behave identically:

<div dir="rtl">123,<wbr>456</div>
<div dir="rtl">123,&#x200B;456</div>
<div dir="rtl">123,{{literal U+200B}}456</div>

Additionally, even with non-Unicode encodings, the first two still behave identically (with the literal U+200B being impossible to represent in those encodings).

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Remove confusing reference

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Whether the page is in UTF-8 or not makes no difference (as long as it's in an encoding that's capable of representing U+200B in the first place, which in practice is probably gonna be UTF-8).
@lionel-rowe lionel-rowe requested a review from a team as a code owner June 1, 2026 16:07
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