Bug 578213 - Highlight zero-width whitespace characters (U+200B)
Summary: Highlight zero-width whitespace characters (U+200B)
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 4.23   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 10
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-Text-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2022-01-14 04:37 EST by Yan Vinogradov CLA
Modified: 2023-08-11 02:00 EDT (History)
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Description Yan Vinogradov CLA 2022-01-14 04:37:15 EST
There's already an existing feature for showing whitespace characters, such as spaces, tabs, line breaks, etc.

Unfortunately, this list does not include zero-width whitespace characters (\u200b), which can't be usually seen. If a code contains such characters, it may be hard to determine the cause.

I propose adding a new configuration option for configuring the visibility of zero-width whitespaces under the General -> Editors -> Text Editors -> Show whitespace characters -> Configure visibility. A replacement character would be \u2588.
Comment 1 Matthias Becker CLA 2023-08-11 02:00:24 EDT
See also https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui/issues/1002