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(After dabbling with variation selectors, I ended up just using a zero width space to differentiate the fields.) [[User:Dingolover6969|Dingolover6969]] ([[User talk:Dingolover6969|talk]]) 14:22, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
:{{re|Dingolover6969}} I see the motivation for occasionally needing to distinguish character variants that share a Unicode code point, but the need for an extremely lengthy invisible comment indicates that using a non-breaking space is not a good solution. It also allows a linebreak between the character and the semi-colon, which is incorrect.
:In the particular case of [[Jing (philosophy)]], highlighting the distinction is unnecessary. In the talk page archive that you mentioned (where the conclusion was not to include a no-merge option), I fully agree with the comment by {{ping|Kanguole}} "What is the purpose of this template? I think it is to convey the Chinese name of the person, book, etc that is the subject of article, for readers who understand characters. It's not to give lessons in typography to people who don't understand hanzi – we have specialist articles for that."
:On [[Wade–Giles#Tones]] where you have also added a non-breaking space, the same effect can be more transparently achieved by using the template twice. In that case, the difference is again unimportant, but I support displaying both variants because it aligns the characters with the other rows in the table. [[User:Freelance Intellectual|Freelance Intellectual]] ([[User talk:Freelance Intellectual|talk]]) 09:18, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
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