I just went through the character map to get these. They are all in Calibri.

Number    Name                   HTML Code    Appearance
------    --------------------   ---------    ----------
U+2000    En Quad                       " "
U+2001    Em Quad                       " "
U+2002    En Space                      " "
U+2003    Em Space                      " "
U+2004    Three-Per-Em Space            " "
U+2005    Four-Per-Em Space             " "
U+2006    Six-Per-Em Space              " "
U+2007    Figure Space                  " "
U+2008    Punctuation Space             " "
U+2009    Thin Space                    " "
U+200A    Hair Space                    " "
U+200B    Zero-Width Space       ​      "​"
U+200C    Zero Width Non-Joiner  ‌      "‌"
U+200D    Zero Width Joiner      ‍      "‍"
U+200E    Left-To-Right Mark     ‎      "‎"
U+200F    Right-To-Left Mark     ‏      "‏"
U+202F    Narrow No-Break Space         " "
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Invisible Characters
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Unicode characters you can not see
In Unicode there are a lot of invisible, non-printable characters: regular white-space characters (e.g. U+0020 SPACE), language specific fillers (e.g. U+3164 HANGUL FILLER of the Korean Hangual alphabet), or special characters (e.g. U+2800 BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK).
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Unicode Compart
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Find all Unicode Characters from Hieroglyphs to Dingbats – Unicode Compart
U+2800 is the unicode hex value of the character Braille Pattern Blank. Char U+2800, Encodings, HTML Entitys:⠀,⠀, UTF-8 (hex), UTF-16 (hex), UTF-32 (hex)
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You can also have untitled YouTube ... the Unicode character ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER (U+200C), or ‌ in HTML. The code block below should contain that character: ... Voting is disabled while the site is in read-only mode. ... Voting is disabled while the site is in read-only mode. Saving is disabled while the site is in read-only mode. ... Show activity on this post. There is actually a truly invisible character: ... More on stackoverflow.com
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Hi there, once a while I happen to encounter a very nasty data issue, caused by copy & paste i.e. form Excel (iso-1252?) to a web editor (utf-8). Issues can manifest in corrupt data being saved (broken CSV) to processing in Knime coming to a complete halt. In this particular case it’s an ... More on forum.knime.com
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This invisible character has no direct keyboard shortcut, but you can copy it online. So, use our invisible text tool to copy-paste the hangul filler. The Unicode "U+2800" represents the "Braille Pattern Blank" character.
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Hi @mwiegand Looking up this specific character, it falls into a class of unicode characters termed “Formatting”. I was recently investigating how to strip emoji and other characters from strings, and in the process discovered some quite useful info. In regex, there are a set of regex patterns describing unicode “classes” or “categories”. Once you know the class you wish to find or filter, you can then use these patterns. The pattern for this particular Formatting class is \p{Cf} , so if you replace your regex “SUCCESS” node to look for that class instead, you will find SUCCESS! :wink: [image] I had a go at putting together a component for filtering based on these classes, with some success. It can be found here, and is useful if the aim is simply to remove characters of particular classes. [image] String Emoji and Character Class Filter – takbb String Character Class and Emoji Filter Filter out emoji and other classes of characters from a string using a built in Regular Expression. This component can … (If the config screen for the component only initially has a small number of classes listed, try executing the component to “refresh” it. I probably need to fix something, but not quite sure where.) Some information about the different unicode categories, such as the “formatting” category can be found here: [image] Find all Unicode Characters from Hieroglyphs to Dingbats – Unicode Compart All Unicode Symbols with Names and Descriptions on One Page
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Invisible characters (Unicode characters you cannot see) · CorentinTh/it-tools · Discussion #1580
In Unicode there are a lot of invisible, non-printable characters: regular white-space characters (e.g. [U+0020 SPACE]), language specific fillers (e.g. [U+3164 HANGUL FILLER] of the Korean Hangual alphabet), or special characters (e.g.
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r/ObsidianMD on Reddit: Making specific invisible Unicode characters optionally visible?
November 19, 2023 -

Hi everyone,

I've been using Obsidian for a few weeks now, and it has replaced all other note taking tools I use, for work, study and leisure.

I study Arabic, and I've found that Obsidian is at least a decent tool to take notes in both left to right and right to left languages, especially with the Dynamic RTL plugin.

But there are sometimes occasions where the standard behavior to sort RTL and LTR doesn't do what I want (and this is not a problem specific with Obsidian, but with a lot of editors and word processors) , and the solution is to insert explicit Unicode marks (U+200E, LTR mark and U+202E, RTL override).

This way I can finally arrange text exactly how I want, and take my notes regarding grammar, vocabulary and texts.

Now: these Unicode characters are invisible. It would be very, very nice to have a way to make them visible somehow, mostly to find them and delete/move them, and then make them invisible again.

Is there a way to do that, either using existing functionalities/community plugins, or writing my own?

Could anyone point me to a place to start from, be it some documentation, code or anything else?

Thanks

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There is a plugin for displaying whitespace and paragraph - Control Characters. It is done with CSS. It is possible to modify the code and use it as a CSS fragment. You may find these links helpful https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39508142/display-non-printable-characters-in-html-textarea https://stackoverflow.com/questions/869413/jquery-dialog-with-rounded-corners https://prostring.work/see-non-printable
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VSCode apparently has a feature to show hidden characters: https://youtu.be/x1kyIUZgzqo?si=Ds0fjfbCh3pFa2aT . Perhaps you could edit those notes in VSC? There are also Obsidian plugins that facilitate the interaction with VSC, such as https://github.com/NomarCub/obsidian-open-vscode . You could also build a plug-in to do this, although it would be more work of course. I don’t think there is an easy way to use CSS to do this, however if there is perhaps a font that renders these invisible characters (perhaps some sort of debug font that deliberately violates the Unicode spec in this regard? I don’t know if such a thing even makes sense), you could create a css snippet that sets all text to use that font, then toggle the cssclasses property to apply it when you wanted to see them. The very last thing I can think of would be to write a js snippet that replaces the content of a selection or current note using a regex to replace those characters with unique visible ones or even a string like [U+200E] then a corresponding snippet to regex replace them back. You could then use something like Templater or QuickAdd to bind each to a hotkey or menu command or button.