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Character Info
See each character’s Unicode code point, name and encoding; find and remove invisible characters such as zero-width spaces.
How to use it
Select something, hold the right mouse button, swipe. The animation plays the steps one after another; click a step to see it again.
- Select a few characters
- Hold the right mouse buttonAbout a quarter of a second. A short click still opens the usual menu.
- Swipe to “Character Info” and let goIt sits on the ring where you put it, and it’s always in All Actions.
- Code point, name and bytesThe emoji is split into its parts.
- Something invisible is hidingTwo zero-width spaces.
- Remove them and replaceOr copy the cleaned text.
What it does
Select a few characters to see each one’s Unicode code point, name and UTF-8 bytes, plus UTF-16 for emoji and other characters beyond U+FFFF. Emoji with a skin tone are split into their parts.
It finds invisible characters such as zero-width spaces, no-break spaces, BOMs and bidirectional controls, which often come along when you copy from web pages and chats.
Remove them and replace the original, or copy the cleaned text; no-break spaces become ordinary spaces.
Up to 20 characters are listed one by one; in longer text it just looks for invisible ones.
Install it
Plugins aren’t part of the Pop download. Install this one when you need it.
1From Settings
In Pop’s Settings › Actions, find “Character Info” under Plugins at the top and click Install. It downloads from Pop’s GitHub release in a few seconds and works right away, without a restart.
2Or from the ring
Open All Actions on the ring and search for “Character Info”. Plugins that aren’t installed are listed after your actions: click it to install, and it runs right away if it can handle what you selected.
3Then use it your way
Put it on the ring in Settings › Ring, give it a shortcut, or run it from Shortcuts and scripts with its link:
pop://run?plugin=charInfoUninstall it from the same list when you no longer need it: the plugin and its settings are deleted. After Pop updates, installed plugins are updated with it, and with iCloud sync on, what you install syncs to your other Macs.
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