Render Unicode control characters

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

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

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