[throwaway290]

It has uses in typesetting, e.g. for allowing a word to be broken.

[Doxin]

So what's the point of a zero width nonbreaking space then? seeing as that also exists.

[throwaway290]

Used e.g. to avoid awkward linebreaks

[Doxin]

You can surely also use no character at all to replace a zero width nonbreaking space for that use case though, or am I missing some subtlety here?