Re: How to have NO label on phone number in Google Contatcts

On Sun, 18 May 2025 09:54:23 +0100, Andy Burns wrote :

That's clever, Andy, but how do I get the character from a web page?
Every time I do a copy, I get "200b" or "U+200b" or such, not the
actual character.

 
The original page I found to copy various types of space from was
 
<https://www.namecheap.com/visual/font-generator/whitespace>
 
but I just found this one with a shorter URL
 
<https://zerowidthspace.me>

That was nice of you, Andy, for posting what worked for you for Stan.
If that doesn't work for Stan, some of these below may work for him.

Since my 'newsreader' has no concept of funky characters, my posts are
automatically filtered through a list of common "pretty" characters.

Then they have to be placed into gVIM using their hex codes but you have to
find the hex codes with ga (get ascii), not all of which show up in gVim.

You can often get the hex code by pasting into this web site.
 <https://www.textfixer.com/html/html-character-encoding.php>

I often use this character finder to figure out non-printing characters.
 <http://www.mauvecloud.net/charsets/CharCodeFinder.html>

Sometimes this works well sometimes for many unicode characters.
 <https://www.codetable.net/unicodecharacters>

Sometimes you have HTML charactes to deal with, which are a PITA.
 <https://html-css-js.com/html/character-codes/all/>

All sorts of character-conversion sites are needed at times.
 <https://www.codetable.net/unicodecharacters>

In summary, when you write your own newsreader, you need to deal with the
character conversion, e.g., of non-breaking white-space to a space, where
not every character shows up inside of gVim (which is my editor of choice).