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Coding editors also often show this kind of thing intentionally, as those characters are meaningful for interpretation purposes. Many of them are very UTF frien
by Groxx 5y ago
Coding editors also often show this kind of thing intentionally, as those characters are meaningful for interpretation purposes. Many of them are very UTF friendly, but they still show zero-width spaces as e.g. "<zwsp>" on purpose.
They've also often shown non-printable ASCII control characters for basically forever. Null bytes and \bel and whatnot are very important despite being "invisible", and they've been around for decades.
- tetha 5y agoI've been bitten by things like this from an entirely unexpected angle - messengers like teams and skype sometimes <helpfully> replace characters like "-" and " " with all manner of more readable unicode characters. More readable, until the YAML parser choked. Since that, I pretty much always run some variant of the gremlins plugin, which highlights pretty much all unicode spaces, dashes and other weird control symbols.
- Groxx 5y agoChat apps replacing ™ with a horrifically large, poorly-rendered and off-colored "TM" and ruining The Joke™ is a major pet peeve of mine, yeah :| And even worse, it seems to be spreading, as each one blindly copies the horrible decisions of the others. I would disable all of those auto-replacements everywhere if only I could disable all of those auto-replacements everywhere.