Problem parsing zero width space u200b in subtitles

I wanted to start watching a movie and because of the subtitles, couldn't start watching.
I was getting an error message about subtitles. After some investigation, I noticed that with other text editors I could see a special character. It was a u200b in subtitle's timestamp.
In other media player there was no such issue. Probably there should be done something about special characters in general.

Give link to the file.

I don't have it right now. The issue occurred in an older version. It had something like ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​the following. If you try to copy and paste this (it contains the character) the link won't work.

Code:

​​​​​​unicode-explorer.com/c/​200B​​​​

Such character in a subtitle timestamp line is not allowed, making it a broken file.

In other media player it worked even if it had the special character.
One approach would be to ignore the line and not display it and another approach would be to try to parse the line and display it somehow even uncorrectly.
In the version that I encountered this issue I got an error message telling me that the subtitle was broken at line X or something. If I opened it with notepad I couldn't see what was wrong.

I am not going to reduce parsing performance for every file just to handle a super rare broken file.