Remove Special Characters from Code Comments
Code comments sometimes contain Unicode characters, smart quotes, and special symbols from copy-pasting documentation. Clean them here for consistent, ASCII-safe comments.
How to do this
Copy your code comments
Paste into the tool
Remove non-standard characters
Paste back into your code
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Remove Special Characters
Remove special characters like ©, ®, ™, emoji, and other non-standard symbols while preserving letters, numbers, spaces, and common punctuation.
Example
Input
Hello™ World® — Special© chars§ here¶
Output
Hello World Special chars here
How Remove Special Characters Works
Remove special characters like ©, ®, ™, emoji, and other non-standard symbols while preserving letters, numbers, spaces, and common punctuation.
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Example: Remove Special Characters from Code Comments
Input
// TODO: Fix the encoding issue - see 3.2 // Note: Resume parsing does not handle special symbols
Output
// TODO: Fix the encoding issue - see 3.2 // Note: Resume parsing does not handle special symbols
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