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Special Character Finder

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Violet is on patrol... sniffing bytes and hunting Unicode.
US keyboard baseline: ASCII 0x20–0x7E (+ tabs/newlines)
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This tool flags any character that is not standard printable ASCII (US keyboard). Tabs/newlines are allowed. Everything else is considered “special”.

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What counts as “special”?

Anything not on a standard US keyboard. Tabs/newlines are allowed.

Common offenders
  • Non-breaking spaces (NBSP)
  • Smart quotes “ ” and ’
  • En/em dashes – -
  • Invisible characters (zero-width space, BOM)
  • Encoding artifacts like ®