Find, remove or add characters that show nothing, such as zero-width spaces. Your text is processed on your device.
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What it does
The invisible character tool works on characters you can’t see:
Show writes each invisible character as its code point in brackets, such as [U+200B], and lists how many there are of each.
Remove cleans them out. A no-break space or another special space becomes an ordinary space, and a line or paragraph separator becomes a line break, so words stay apart. The others are deleted.
Insert puts the character you choose between each pair of characters on every line, and gives you that character on its own to copy.
How to use it
Type or paste your text into “Your text”. Select “Try a sample” to see an example.
Choose an action: Show, Remove or Insert.
For Insert, choose the Character: Zero-width space U+200B, Word joiner U+2060, Hangul filler U+3164 or Braille blank U+2800.
The result appears next to your text and updates as you type. Select Copy to put it on your clipboard, or, for Insert, the Copy button of the row on its own to copy just the character.
Good to know
A zero-width space lets a long word break at the end of a line; a word joiner keeps two words on one line.
Text copied from web pages, chats and documents often carries no-break spaces and zero-width spaces that make search, sorting or code fail without any visible reason. Show finds them.
An invisible character shows nothing, so each row names it by its code point.
Limits
Your text can be up to 1,000,000 characters long.
Privacy
Your text is processed on your device: the work runs in your browser, and nothing you type or paste is uploaded. Only the action and character you chose are kept in your browser for next time.
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Frequently asked questions
Which characters count as invisible?
Characters that show nothing on their own: zero-width spaces and joiners, the word joiner, the byte order mark, soft hyphens, control characters, spaces other than the ordinary one (such as the no-break space), the Hangul filler and the Braille blank. Ordinary spaces, tabs, line breaks and accents that sit on a letter don't count. Nor do other marks such as the combining grapheme joiner U+034F and variation selectors, or private-use and unassigned characters.
How do I make a blank name?
Choose Insert, pick Hangul filler U+3164 or Braille blank U+2800, and select the Copy button of the row on its own. Paste it as your name. Some games and apps accept it as a name that looks empty; others reject it, and which ones do can change.
Are the joiners inside emoji removed?
No. An emoji such as a family or the flag of Scotland is built from several characters held together by zero-width joiners or tag characters. Those belong to the emoji, so Show doesn't count them and Remove keeps them.
Is it safe to remove joiners from Persian or Indic text?
Check first. Persian and Indic scripts use the zero-width non-joiner U+200C and the zero-width joiner U+200D to control how letters connect. They count as invisible here, so Remove deletes them and the words can look different. Use Show to see where they are before you remove them.
Is my text uploaded?
No. Your text is processed on your device by your browser and is never sent to a server. Only the action and character you chose are remembered for your next visit.