One option would be to colour-code them, but I was more interested in the philosophy than the implementation.
** Phil. --------
Not in every case. How would you visually differentiate between all the white space characters (space vs. non-break space, thin space (u2009) vs. narrow no-break space (u202f), … ) such that the text remains readable?
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