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AV-S17

Unicode Inspector

Inspect code points and bytes, find zero-width, bidi and look-alike characters, and clean them.

● Runs on your device; nothing is uploaded

How to use it

  1. Paste text into the Text box.
  2. Read the counts and the warnings for hidden or look-alike characters.
  3. Under Clean text, tick what to remove or replace and pick a Normalise form.
  4. Copy the cleaned text, or check each character in the table.

Limits

Text
500,000 characters
Character table
First 2,000 characters
Features
  • Code point, name or category, script, UTF-8 and UTF-16 per character
  • Flags zero-width, BOM, tag, bidi and unusual space characters
  • Detects Cyrillic and Greek look-alikes and mixed-script words
  • Counts code points, graphemes, UTF-16 units and UTF-8 bytes
  • NFC or NFKC normalisation; keeps emoji joiners when cleaning

For AI agents: avtools_unicode_inspector

AV-S17 · Unicode Inspector

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