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Invisible Character Cleaner

Detect and strip zero-width characters, BOMs, and control characters, and normalize Unicode.

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Characters

110

Invisible found

7

Distinct types

4

Detected characters

ZWSP

Zero Width Space

U+200B

· Zero-width

will remove×3
NBSP

No-Break Space

U+00A0

· Odd space

→ space×2
SHY

Soft Hyphen

U+00AD

· Soft hyphen

will remove×1
BOM

Byte Order Mark / ZW No-Break Space

U+FEFF

· BOM

will remove×1

Highlighted preview

BOMHelloZWSP World,NBSPwelcome to The Tool Hive!ZWSP
This lineNBSPwas pasted from a wordSHYprocessor and hides aZWSPfew gremlins.

Cleaning options

Cleaned output

5 removed2 converted

Tab, newline, and carriage-return characters are always preserved.