Render Unicode control characters

Category: CSS
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 56)
Intent stage: None

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Published standard

Summary

Currently Chrome and other browsers do not render unicode control characters. This violates the unicode spec and the handling in other software. With this change non-white-space control characters will be rendered.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text/#white-space-processing
Firefox: Positive
Safari: Positive
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=530348

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=render-unicode-control-characters
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Render%20Unicode%20control%20characters
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Render%20Unicode%20control%20characters
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Render%20Unicode%20control%20characters

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