title: Visual Studio: show all special characters in a string
body: <p>While debugging, Visual Studio does not show some special characters in a string. Most of you are familiar with the way notepad++ displays special characters (copied from another post):
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/sD9fR.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>To be a bit more specific, my string contains the record separator with character code 30. Notepad++ shows it like <code>[RS]</code>. Visual Studio does not show it at all. So a string like <code>hello[RS]stackoverflow[RS]1[RS]2</code> becomes <code>hellostackoverflow12</code>. Even worse, if a string ends with "invisible" characters, there is no way to notice this, because the string still looks sensible. I want to be able to see all characters in debug mode, while hovering over strings, and in the watch window.</p>