Remove hidden characters from Claude text
Text copied from Claude can carry the same hidden characters and unusual punctuation as any AI output. Paste it and get a complete list of every unusual character, then remove them in one click.
Copied AI text often carries curly quotes, em dashes, non-breaking and narrow spaces, soft hyphens and zero-width characters. They are what makes the text easy to flag with a simple character scan, and what breaks code, forms and search. This page finds every one of them, names it with its Unicode code point, and removes it. The report is generated on your device from the exact bytes you pasted.
How to remove hidden characters from Claude text
- Paste the text. The scan runs locally.
- Read the report. Every unusual character is listed with its name and count.
- Clean and copy. Remove hidden characters and, if you want, normalise quotes and dashes.
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Questions people ask
Which characters are removed?
Every non-printing and format character, all space variants other than a normal space, soft hyphens and byte order marks, plus Cyrillic or Greek letters standing in for Latin ones. Curly quotes, ellipses and dashes are normalised when the switches are on.
What will the scan usually find?
Curly quotes and em dashes, which are visible, plus non-breaking or narrow spaces and zero-width characters, which are not. All are listed and can be removed.