Does Notepad show all hidden characters

Question

In Notepad   I have set  replace tab with 2 spaces    When coding in Python I copy-pasted some code from the web and it appeared indented correctly  But running the code resulted in indentation errors  which I solved in the end by removing all  visible  spaces at line beginnings and inserting the same amount of spaces again   Could it be possible that Scintilla based Notepad   does not show all special characters  but displays them as spaces  Is there a setting to fix this

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In newer versions of Notepad    currently 5 9   this option is under   View- gt Show Symbol- gt Show All Characters   or  View- gt Show Symbol- gt Show White Space and Tab

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Yes  it does  The way to enable this depends on your version of Notepad    On newer versions you can use   Menu View   Show Symbol    Show All Characters   or  Menu View   Show Symbol   Show White Space and TAB   Thanks to bers  comment and bkaid s answers below for these updated locations      On older versions you can look for   Menu View   Show all characters  or  Menu View   Show White Space and TAB

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For non-printing characters  you can do the following    if you could identify the character  where cursor takes 2 arrow keys to move  just select that character    do Ctrl-F   now you can count or replace or even mark all such characters

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Double check your text with the Hex Editor Plug-in  In your case there may have been some control characters which have crept into your text  Usually you ll look at the white-space  and it will say 32 32 32 32  or for Unicode 32 00 32 00 32 00 32 00  You may find the problem this way  providing there isn t masses of code   Download the Hex Plugin from here  http   sourceforge net projects npp-plugins files Hex 20Editor

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Yes  and unfortunately you cannot turn them off  or any other special characters  The options under  View Show Symbols only turns on or off things like tabs  spaces  EOL  etc   So if you want to read some obscure coding with text in it - you actually need to look elsewhere   I also looked at changing the coding  ASCII is not listed  and that would not make the mess invisible anyway

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