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How to Strip Hidden Zero-Width Characters & Markdown from LLM Outputs (And Estimate BPE Tokens Locally)

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When copying generated text, documentation, or code snippets from ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini into a CMS, Notion, Gmail, or code editor, two recurring issues come up for developers and technical writers: Formatting & Invisible Unicode Artifacts: Raw **bold** asterisks, ### heading hashes, overused A…

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  1. 2026-10-26 06:22 · DEV Community — AI
    How to Strip Hidden Zero-Width Characters & Markdown from LLM Outputs (And Estimate BPE Tokens Locally)

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