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It might be useful to have an option to turn all the "non-obvious" Unicode characters into the form of <U+XXXX> in programming editors. One concern is that some legitimate text will break, but it would be worth it considering most code is written in English anyways.

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It's trivial to convert between this and regular Brainfuck syntax: just replace characters. The article even gives an example using a Perl one-liner :)

Revision: I believe I misinterpreted the intention of your post, instead wanting to expose tricks like these. I'd be fine with this.

Jetbrains: "Zero Width Characters locator" plugin (https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7448)

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