Chapter 16 - Text - 16.6.3 Control and combining characters' details
Go to the relevant page of the specification.
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Combining characters and styling
The combined characters are styled as one character. - white-space-control-characters-001 (ahem)
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White-space and non white space control characters
White space processing model does not affect non white space control characters, in this case the 'Start of string' character.