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You're welcome, there's nothing like a visual. (Huh, another "Python" reference.)
– Bob Stein
Commented Dec 11, 2015 at 2:58
Regardless of context, I feel like this is the perfect answer to "How do I insert special characters".
– Stevoisiak
Commented Jul 10, 2017 at 20:06
No, far from it. This lacks all the interesting invisible characters e.g. U+200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARKER, U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE, U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE, etc etc etc.
– ulidtko
Commented Sep 18, 2019 at 15:04
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Besides in principle lacking invisible characters, this answer is far from perfect, because of flawed assumptions. 1) That you can fit "all of Unicode" onto 2-3 pages of copypaste wall -- you can't even think so; 2) That Unicode won't change in future -- it changes constantly (google://ninja+emoji); 3) That the viewer will have all needed glyphs and understand that others see different glyphs. Spawning a proper charmap app is way closer to "perfect answer".
– ulidtko
Commented Sep 18, 2019 at 16:24
@ulidtko I was going to make a joke about them being already there, but it wasn't very funny. So I added a few spacey characters instead. Your thoughts? Invisible things can be hard to find.
– Bob Stein
Commented Sep 20, 2019 at 15:01

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create code fences with backticks ` or tildes ~
```
like so
```
add language identifier to highlight code
```python
def function(foo):
print(foo)
```
put returns between paragraphs
for linebreak add 2 spaces at end
_italic_ or **bold**
indent code by 4 spaces
backtick escapes `like _so_`
quote by placing > at start of line
to make links (use https whenever possible)
<https://example.com>
[example](https://example.com)
<a href="https://example.com">example</a>

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