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Those aren't invisible, merely transparent: they take up space, and alter the location of the cursor when inserted. Invisible characters don't.
by chias 10y ago
Those aren't invisible, merely transparent: they take up space, and alter the location of the cursor when inserted. Invisible characters don't.
- logfromblammo 10y agoAlso, some text-displaying programs will insert glyphs for them, to make them visible, which would make them somewhat more detectable. And the BEL character, while non-spacing and invisible, is sometimes audible.