



NOTE 2: Since these characters are invisible, I put each symbol between ll, to make it easier to see how wide they are (their width can be different on different. Unicode characters are invisible glyphs that dont appear onscreen but take up space like different characters. NOTE 1: On Windows, the UNICODE can be used as an Alt+Plus code. Note that sometimes zero width text cannot be easily copied. Properly rendered, they have both no glyph and zero width. The tag characters are deprecated in favor of markup. NOTE 2: Since these characters are invisible, I put each symbol between 'll', to make it easier to see how wide they are (their width can be different on different platforms, so first copy these to your destination to compare them). EDIT : Although I accepted Máté Juhász answer, below are some other types of characters I found. 'Tags' is a Unicode block containing characters for invisibly tagging texts by language. ASCII encoding, which contains characters of the English alphabet and consists of only 128 characters. NOTE 1: On Windows, the UNICODE can be used as an Alt+Plus code. Initially, all text editors were created based on. ↓↓↓ (Add some invisible prefixes to achieve desired order)Ĭould we prefix each string with some kind of special characters (Unicode?) which either won't display at all (but contribute to the ordering) or else display as space of same width (so the menu items still look aligned)?ĮDIT : Although I accepted Máté Juhász' answer, below are some other types of characters I found. U+3164 HANGUL FILLER of the Korean Hangual alphabet), or special characters (e.g. U+0020 SPACE ), language specific fillers (e.g. There are a lot of invisible Unicode characters: special characters, language-specific fillers, and regular white-space characters. We'd like to have a custom order without prefixing numbers or other distracting characters (it's a customer-facing menu). Invisible Unicode characters In Unicode there are a lot of invisible characters: regular white-space characters (e.g. We have a short simple list of text strings on a platform that forces alphabetical order.
