If, as I have understood, there is a single zero-width-space character I can use to stop Org mode interpretation, don't tell me how to insert it; tell me its 8-bit value, in binary or hex. If I have to be in 16-bit-character mode to use it, tell me that.

If it's really 2 characters, but works OK in 8-bit mode, tell me that, too, and tell me the 16 bits.

Next, if that character appears in a file, exactly what effect does it have on the Org mode interpreter? Does it

suppress the Org-mode-syntactical effect of the preceding character? Or,

suppress the syntactical effect of the following character? Or,

only work if it appears both before and after its intended victim?

Or, what?

Absolutely all I want to be able to do, is to find stars, slashes, and underlines, in incoming text, and add something to each to keep it from being interpreted by the Org mode interpreter. Using lisp code, not my fingers.

I don't need to be told anything else.

David Boss