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Phssthpok · 02-11-2016, 05:23 AM

If I use characters such as ZWNJ or soft hyphens, I insert them as numeric entities &#xxx; in the text. However, the "smarten punctuation" tools replaces them by the actual characters, which are invisible. It is then impossible to find them and change them. My solution so far has been to leave out the hash marks (so "&xxx;" instead of "&#xxx;"), smarten the punctuation, and then re-insert the hash marks.

I have also come across similar problems in books which already contain invisible characters which mess up my formatting, and the only way I've found to deal with them is to paste the offending text into an old 8-bit-character editor (which displays any 16-bit characters as a question mark) so I can locate them, then go back to the Calibre editor and retype the text around the problem characters to delete them.

Would it be possible to change things somehow so that these "invisible" characters (which include others apart from zwnj and soft-hyphen, but I don't have a list) are always displayed as numeric entities in the editor to make them visible?

02-11-2016, 05:23 AM	#1
Phssthpok Age improves with wine. Posts: 579 Karma: 95229 Join Date: Nov 2014 Device: Kindle Oasis, Kobo Libra II	Making "invisible"characters visible? If I use characters such as ZWNJ or soft hyphens, I insert them as numeric entities &#xxx; in the text. However, the "smarten punctuation" tools replaces them by the actual characters, which are invisible. It is then impossible to find them and change them. My solution so far has been to leave out the hash marks (so "&xxx;" instead of "&#xxx;"), smarten the punctuation, and then re-insert the hash marks. I have also come across similar problems in books which already contain invisible characters which mess up my formatting, and the only way I've found to deal with them is to paste the offending text into an old 8-bit-character editor (which displays any 16-bit characters as a question mark) so I can locate them, then go back to the Calibre editor and retype the text around the problem characters to delete them. Would it be possible to change things somehow so that these "invisible" characters (which include others apart from zwnj and soft-hyphen, but I don't have a list) are always displayed as numeric entities in the editor to make them visible?