Creative Workflow Helpers
Invisible Character Finder
Paste text and instantly reveal zero-width spaces, non-breaking spaces, bidi marks, odd whitespace and control characters — with their exact positions and a cleaned copy. Everything runs in your browser — your text never leaves the page.
Your text
Findings and the cleaned copy update as you type. Nothing is uploaded.
Revealed text
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0 foundCleaned text
Every flagged character is handled using the "Cleaned output" option above.
What gets flagged
Zero-width characters such as U+200B (ZWSP), U+200C (ZWNJ), U+200D (ZWJ) and U+2060 (word joiner) occupy no space and often break code or search. Invisible spaces including U+00A0 (NBSP), thin, hair, figure and ideographic spaces look like ordinary spaces but are not. Bidi marks (LRM, RLM, embeddings, overrides and isolates) can silently reorder text. Formatting characters such as the soft hyphen and invisible math operators, plus control characters, are reported too. Ordinary spaces and tabs are ignored unless you opt in above.