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There is no built-in feature to display control characters usually not used in text files with a different text/background color or with a replacement character/string. But it is possible to use a syntax highlighting wordfile [. . .] Thanks! That's a good idea and I may end up trying something like...

Well. . . . I wasn't going to name them, (it might not be considered polite), but something like that would be useful. This also assumes that any (single byte) character code greater than 0x7F is a printable character - is that a safe assumption? Thanks! Update: The marks, when they appear, are extr...

Sorry if I look like an idiot for - sort-of - answering my own question, but. . . . I did find, (re-discover), the show spaces/tabs and line-endings settings. They are good because if something is NOT a space, tab, line-ending, or other useful character, it's automatically suspect. However, there ar...

Ref: A pre-existing topic that asks the question in the context of a search-and-replace using regex: How to find non-ASCII characters in a CSV file? My problem is a bit different. I periodically edit files that are plain-vanilla ASCII, like configuration files and such. Every so often, bit-rot, corr...