Unicode Inspector
Breaks a string into Unicode codepoints with their names, blocks and UTF-8 bytes, and flags the troublemakers: zero-width spaces, non-breaking spaces, soft hyphens, bidi controls, lookalike characters and other invisible or confusable codepoints that break searches and diffs.
Runs 100% in your browser — nothing you paste leaves your device.
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Notes
- Copy-pasting from Word, PDFs or chat apps is the usual source of smart quotes, non-breaking spaces and zero-width characters.
- The tool also shows a cleaned copy of your text with the invisible characters removed or replaced.
- Runs 100% in your browser — nothing you paste leaves your device.
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