Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
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Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
#2lol you didn't even give anyone a chance. I saw someone asking about this in the comments from the article this morning.
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
#3It would be a nice enhancement to do so automatically (rather than on-click), but at least for me, this serves the purpose.
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
#4I agree with other users who said that it would be nice if this happened automatically instead of on click--I think after the initial novelty wore off, I'd probably forget to click it. It might be cleaner to just strip the non-printing characters and display a number of characters stripped, similar to how ad blockers display the number of ads blocked.
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
#5It might make more sense as a clipboard filter.
If you're an English speaker that doesn't often handle languages which gain from zero width characters you could just have a listener scan your clipboard for zero-width characters, silently strip them, and then re-populate the clipboard.
Although I've been thinking about building a clipboard filter for Windows a lot lately, I'm getting tired of copying text to the address bar or notepad to strip text formatting information.
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
#6It would be a nice enhancement to do so automatically (rather than on-click), but at least for me, this serves the purpose.
Yes I agree, or maybe just update the app-icon if it detects presence of zero-width characters, and then you can click to show them.
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
#7It might make more sense as a clipboard filter. If you're an English speaker that doesn't often handle languages which gain from zero width characters you could just have a listener scan your clipboard for zero-width characters, silently strip them, and then re-populate the clipboard. Although I've been thinking about building a clipboard filter for Windows a lot lately, I'm getting tired of copying text to the addre…
Ctrl+shift+v pastes without formatting
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
#8What about Firefox?
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
#9I agree with other users who said that it would be nice if this happened automatically instead of on click--I think after the initial novelty wore off, I'd probably forget to click it. It might be cleaner to just strip the non-printing characters and display a number of characters stripped, similar to how ad blockers display the number of ads blocked.
I like the adblock analogy, might work on it, thanks.
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters
#10It might make more sense as a clipboard filter. If you're an English speaker that doesn't often handle languages which gain from zero width characters you could just have a listener scan your clipboard for zero-width characters, silently strip them, and then re-populate the clipboard. Although I've been thinking about building a clipboard filter for Windows a lot lately, I'm getting tired of copying text to the addre…
Ctrl+shift+v pastes without formatting
Not on all apps though. Office apps do not respect that shortcut convention and require clicking on the "Paste Without Formatting" button.