From c5dbf28ed69ac72c4322188c1f0559694941b5c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rootcoma <rootcoma@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 19:43:59 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Removing zero-width space hackery

---
 plugin.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugin.py b/plugin.py
index 77aecd2..b2c77c6 100644
--- a/plugin.py
+++ b/plugin.py
@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ class TriviaTime(callbacks.Plugin):
     def addZeroWidthSpace(self, text):
         if len(text) <= 1:
             return text
-        s = '%s​%s' % (text[:1], text[1:]) # WARNING: this has a zero width space, though its invisible
-        return s
+        s = u'%s\u200b%s' % (text[:1], text[1:])
+        return s.encode('utf-8')
 
     def acceptedit(self, irc, msg, arg, user, channel, num):
         """[<channel>] <num>