Visualize Hidden Whitespace & Invisible Characters Make invisible whitespace characters visible with symbolic markers.

A Whitespace Visualizer is a text analysis tool that replaces invisible whitespace characters with visible symbolic markers to show whitespace characters in a given input string. Developers and programmers use it to identify and debug formatting issues in their code or text data, solving the specific problem of detecting hidden whitespace characters that can cause errors or inconsistencies. For instance, when working with tab vs space indentation, it can be crucial to visualize these differences.

What makes this tool different is its ability to detect a wide variety of invisible characters, including non-breaking spaces, zero-width spaces, and byte order marks. It achieves this through a series of regex replacements, where each type of whitespace character is replaced with a unique visible marker, such as · for spaces, →\t for tabs, and [ZWS] for zero-width spaces. This allows users to see hidden whitespace in text and understand how different types of whitespace characters are represented.

The tool's output includes markers like ° for non-breaking spaces, [ZWJ] and [ZWNJ] for zero-width joiners and non-joiners, and [BOM] for byte order marks, making it a useful invisible characters finder. By using this tool, developers can easily detect zero-width characters online and gain insight into the formatting of their text data, which is essential when working with text encoding and formatting issues.