# Highlight non-ascii characters in Sublime Text 3

This plugin highlights non-ascii characters excluding whitelisted characters. It makes control characters, zero width spaces, full width colons and other dangerous characters that might break your code visible.

<img src="screen-shot.png" alt="The plugin highlights bad characters in the editor" title="The plugin highlights dodgy characters" width="404">

By default the European special characters are whitelisted. The whitelisted characters can be edited in the settings.

`Sublime Text > Preferences > Package Settings > Highlight Dodgy Chars > Settings - User`

## Installing

The easiest way to install this plugin is with the **Package Control plugin** If you don't have Package Control installed, you can find instructions here: [https://packagecontrol.io/installation](https://packagecontrol.io/installation)

Once you've installed Package Control, restart Sublime and open the Command Palette (Command+Shift+p on OS X, Control+Shift+p on Linux/Windows). Type/select "Package Control: Install Package", wait while Package Control fetches the latest package list, then type/select `Highlight Dodgy Chars` when the list appears.