Invisible Character Detector

Reveal hidden Unicode characters and optionally remove emoji. It runs directly in your browser.

Local processingProcessed locally in your browser

Text to inspect

0 code points0 UTF-16 units

0detected Unicode items

0character types

–detected scripts

Visible preview

Invisible characters will appear here as labeled code points.

Character details

Paste text to inspect its Unicode structure.

Cleanup

Remove zero-width spaces and invisible operatorsRemove bidirectional control charactersReplace unusual spaces with regular spacesRemove non-printing control charactersRemove emoji (off by default)

Good for

Find zero-width characters, directional controls, unusual spaces, emoji and mixed look-alike scripts in copied text.

Limits

This reports Unicode structure, not authorship, intent, malware or AI-generated text. Joiners and variation selectors are otherwise preserved, but are removed with their emoji cluster when emoji removal is enabled.