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Inspection

Code points
UTF-16 code units
Grapheme clusters
Line breaks

Visible text

Regular spaces appear as ·. Special characters appear in [BRACKETS]. These are display markers, not replacements.

Character details

Indexes start at 0; line and column start at 1. Columns count code points. A CRLF pair is one finding and two code points. Findings are observations, not necessarily errors.

First 500 special-character findings in original text
Character	Code point	Point index	UTF-16 offset	Line:col	Nearby text

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Remove zero-width spaces (U+200B) Replace no-break spaces (U+00A0) with regular spaces Normalize CRLF and CR line endings to LF Trim spaces and tabs at document edges Remove leading BOM characters (U+FEFF) Remove soft hyphens (U+00AD) Remove ZWJ / ZWNJ (U+200D / U+200C)

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Order: zero-width spaces → no-break spaces → soft hyphens → joiners → leading BOM / outer spaces and tabs → CRLF / CR to LF. Other Unicode and direction controls are kept.

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