Non printing characters in favorites

[bgo-eiu]

At the moment, if a non-printing character like Zero-Width Non Joiner is added to the favorites, there is no way to see it as that tab only shows the glyphs for characters. It would be helpful if there were labels for the characters (common non printing characters like ZWNJ all have abbreviations which may be used.)

[PhilC813]

Agreed 110%.

Just to illustrate how unintuitive the current implementation is...

I had just installed UnicodePad, and the first two characters I favorited were the two emoji-specific variation selectors, which are non-printing characters used to specify whether the preceding character is displayed in text form or emoji form. And so when I went to the "Favourite" tab, I couldn't see them.

I almost opened a new GitHub issue to report that you can't favorite these characters. But thankfully, I tried to favorite a printing character, and came to the realization that the variation selectors were listed; it's just that they couldn't be seen.

Current layout

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@Ryosuke839 The issue has been opened since 2023, but I think it's rather easy to solve since the solution already exists:

Adopt the existing, list-style layout of the "Find" tab

(Or the one from the "Input" tab, but I don't think "Grapheme Clustering" makes sense in favourites)

"Find" tab	"Input" tab
Preferred layout	Alternate layout

[Ryosuke839]

I haven't came up with a good solution with multiple columns yet but you can opt for the list style from tabs settings.

[PhilC813]

you can opt for the list style from tabs settings

I checked the settings but completely missed this one. Thank you for pointing that out!

You could consider making that setting the default. It's just one small thing but I must not be the only new user who was like "why don't favorites work!" 😅