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[VSCode] Strip invisible characters from prompts

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[VSCode] Improved prompt handling in the chat box: invisible Unicode formatting and tag characters are removed from pasted text with a notice, and from anything else before it is sent
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Paste text

Text you paste stays visible in the prompt box, rather than collapsing to a placeholder as it does in the terminal. In sessions where Claude Code marks pasted text, Claude still sees a large paste as text you pasted rather than typed.

Claude Code also removes invisible Unicode characters from text you paste into the prompt box and from anything else you send:

  • If a notice such as Removed 3 invisible characters from the pasted text appears when you paste, the text went in without those characters.
  • If a notice about removed characters appears when you send, nothing was sent. The cleaned text is back in the prompt box. Send again to send the text as shown.

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