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Zero width or invisible ASCII in Unicode?
Would it be possible to create "invisible ascii" characters as part of unicode?
Such characters would be useful for hiding URL text, for example.
- navjack27 4y agoLet's try something using some text from a scratchpad of notes I keep in VSCODE. find and replace: ; to "" > to >" < to "< >" to > "< to < get rid of the " at the start of the document and at the end too then use format document with > XML - unit separator - record separator - group separator - file separator
- DemocracyFTW2 4y agoThere's something similar, Unicode tags https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags_(Unicode_block) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags_(Unicode_block): Tags is a Unicode block containing formatting tag characters. The block is designed to mirror ASCII. It was originally intended for language tags, but has now been repurposed as emoji modifiers, specifically for region flags.
- daly 4y agoI encoded ascii using morse code with a dot becoming a space and a dash becoming a tab. I wrapped the whole thing with a trivial C program to encode/decode. The end result was "Hello, World" in C but completely invisible. That made it possible to include code that no-one can see but will still be compiled.
- josephcsible 4y agoReminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...