Special Hidden Character

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July 17, 2019
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I found this hidden character in an InDesign 2019 file. It seems to cause a printing issue with the font 'Apple Color Emoji.ttc'.

Does anyone know what this is and what it does?

Thank you.

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TikiScott1Author

Participant

I looked at the Glyphs palette and the character is labeled:

GID: 42

Unicode: FE0F (FE zero F)

Name: variation selector-16

This character doesn't follow all the instances of this font, just some.

I've searched this character and replaced it with nothing and the printing issues are better. I can make a pdf without the characters changing. When printing to our Canon 10000 printers, it crashes the system. So, we have given up on this job.

Thank you to all that have replied.

rob day

Community Expert

Did the doc start in a different language? There's this:

https://codepoints.net/U+FE0F?lang=en

When I use the page‘s copy to clipboard and paste into InDesign, I do indeed get an invisible I’ve never seen before.

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Rob,

thanks for the link.

I think now the purpose of this special character is clear. Quoted from the site:

This codepoint may change the appearance of the preceding character. If that is a symbol, dingbat or emoji, U+FE0F forces it to be rendered as a colorful image as compared to a monochrome text variant.

TikiScott1 ,

if this special character FE0F forces InDesign to crash when printing ( I'm not sure what exactly happens in your system ) then do a detailed bug report at InDesign UserVoice: Adobe InDesign Feedback

Regards,
Uwe

rob day

Community Expert

If you select and copy the hidden character and paste it into the Text Find/Change field what do you get? A Discretionary Break and Space would be this: