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Old 06-09-2016, 08:24 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
There is no way to show invisible characters that take no space in the underlying Qt widget. Your best bet is to simply run a search replace to replace all instances of such characters with something visible, like one of the unicode block characters.
Since the soft hyphens cause a word to be listed as mis-spelt -- generating a lot more review effort -- replacing with another character would most likely also

FWIW, that's why I decided to just delete the soft hyphens until the very end
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