Invisible Character Detector
Find zero-width, directional, control, and unusual spacing characters with exact positions.
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Investigate text that looks correct but compares, searches, or renders unexpectedly. Unicode tools expose code points, hidden controls, normalization changes, encodings, and conservative cleanup choices.
4 active toolsFocused utilities
Each tool appears once under its primary category.
Find zero-width, directional, control, and unusual spacing characters with exact positions.
Open toolConservatively remove selected hidden characters without breaking emoji joiners by default.
Open toolNormalize text to NFC, NFD, NFKC, or NFKD and compare changed code-point positions.
Open toolInspect characters or graphemes with code points, encodings, categories, positions, and export.
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Questions
No. Joiners, direction marks, and variation selectors can be legitimate, so removal controls are conservative by default.
No. Unicode normalization handles canonical and compatibility forms, not translation or confusable-character detection.