Invisible Character Detector — Text & Content Tools — Zapit

Invisible Character Detector

Find and remove hidden zero-width and invisible Unicode characters.

All Detectable Invisible Characters (23)
UnicodeName
U+200BZero-Width Space
U+200CZero-Width Non-Joiner
U+200DZero-Width Joiner
U+00ADSoft Hyphen
U+FEFFBOM / Zero-Width NBSP
U+200ELeft-to-Right Mark
U+200FRight-to-Left Mark
U+202ALTR Embedding
U+202BRTL Embedding
U+202CPop Directional Format
U+202DLTR Override
U+202ERTL Override
U+2060Word Joiner
U+2061Function Application
U+2062Invisible Times
U+2063Invisible Separator
U+2064Invisible Plus
U+00A0Non-Breaking Space
U+2007Figure Space
U+2008Punctuation Space
U+2009Thin Space
U+200AHair Space
U+3000Ideographic Space

About Invisible Character Detector

Invisible Unicode characters are often introduced by copy-pasting from websites, word processors, or foreign language keyboards. They can break text comparisons, search indexing, and cause unexpected rendering in code or databases.

Common culprits: Zero-Width Space (U+200B) inserted by CMSes, BOM (U+FEFF) from UTF-8 files, and Non-Breaking Space (U+00A0) from HTML content.

UnicodeZero-Width SpaceBOMText CleaningCMS
Detect and reveal hidden or invisible Unicode characters lurking in your text. Find zero-width spaces, non-breaking spaces, control characters, and other invisible glyphs that can cause bugs in code, break copy-paste, or interfere with data processing.

Key Features

Full Unicode detection
Identifies zero-width spaces, zero-width joiners, non-breaking spaces, control characters, BOM markers, and more.
Visual highlighting
Invisible characters are highlighted with colored markers showing their Unicode code point.
One-click cleanup
Remove all detected invisible characters with a single click to get clean text.
Character breakdown
See a summary of exactly which invisible characters were found and their count.

How to Use

  1. 1Paste suspicious text into the input area.
  2. 2Invisible characters are detected and highlighted automatically.
  3. 3Review the character breakdown to see what was found.
  4. 4Click "Remove all" to strip invisible characters, then copy the cleaned text.

Frequently Asked Questions