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polyphenol

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Why is Character Viewer so annoying?

If you want to find, say, an em space, and search for "space", you find lots of space characters including many spaces. But there is absolutely nothing to identify that there are space characters after numeral 9. You have to scroll down and check by clicking around and see a grey or pink generalised character symbol.
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Is it really impossible for Apple to display a "there is a non-visible character here" symbol of some sort? You'd still have to go through the characters to find the one you want, but at least you'd know that there are extra characters.

I know this isn't a mega issue. But it is annoying. Especially as searching for "em" or "em " doesn't find the em-space character. You need to search for "em s" or something like that.

Or am I missing the obvious?

(This is on Tahoe 26.1)
 
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