unicode - Modify appearance of invisibles in BBEdit

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2014-07
  • dcc

    Is it possible to alter the characters that BBEdit uses to present invisibles? I'd like BBEdit to display invisibles identical to the way Textmate does.

    Textmate does not display spaces and displays tabs as very discrete 90 degree angles: enter image description here

    BBEdit displays tabs as large triangles and spaces as large diamonds which is just too distracting: enter image description here

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  • Andrew J. Brehm

    A common problem with right-to-left text and many text editors is that while the actual right-to-left characters are written right-to-left, the punctuation (nominally) following such a sentence is switched back to left-to-right mode again.

    This results in, for example, Hebrew text not followed but preceeded by a question mark.

    The problem can be dealt with by adding another right-to-left character after the punctuation. But that is certainly not a good solution.

    So I am wondering whether there is an invisible right-to-left character in Unicode that I could add after punctuation at the end of right-to-left text in order to get the effect of adding another character but not the sight of it.

    Any ideas?

    Or any other ideas to solve the problem?


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  • TRS-80

    Does U+200F "RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK Right-to-left zero-width character" work? There's a few others listed at UAX #9: Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.

  • macarthy

    I believe that openoffice allows you to do this (Add the zero-width space) with a SPACE bar + one of the Meta keys. This is certainly the case in Lao and Thai scripts.