Paste text and the invisible characters you cannot see, zero-width spaces, joiners, the byte-order mark and soft hyphens, are deleted, while non-breaking spaces become normal ones. These characters break search, sorting and code, and this removes them in your browser.
Zero-width space, non-joiner, joiner and word joiner are deleted, along with the byte-order mark (BOM).
The soft hyphen and the left and right direction marks that hide inside copied text are removed too.
Non-breaking and narrow spaces become ordinary spaces, then doubles are collapsed.
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Paste the text above and the zero-width and other invisible characters are deleted instantly. Copy the clean result, or export it as a profile for the Windows app.
A zero-width space (U+200B) is a character that takes up no width and is completely invisible, but still counts as a character. It is used for line-break hints and is a common cause of failed string matches and duplicate-looking values.
They come from copying out of web pages, PDFs, chat apps and rich editors, which insert zero-width joiners, byte-order marks and direction marks. Because you cannot see them they cause bugs that are hard to spot, and deleting them fixes it.
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