---
title: showsControlCharacters
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: uikit/nslayoutmanager/showscontrolcharacters
---

# showsControlCharacters

A Boolean value that indicates whether the layout manager substitutes visible glyphs for control characters in the layout.

## Declaration

```swift
var showsControlCharacters: Bool { get set }
```

## See Also

### Configuring the global layout manager options

- [allowsNonContiguousLayout](uikit/nslayoutmanager/allowsnoncontiguouslayout.md)
- [hasNonContiguousLayout](uikit/nslayoutmanager/hasnoncontiguouslayout.md)
- [showsInvisibleCharacters](uikit/nslayoutmanager/showsinvisiblecharacters.md)
- [usesFontLeading](uikit/nslayoutmanager/usesfontleading.md)
- [backgroundLayoutEnabled](appkit/nslayoutmanager/backgroundlayoutenabled.md)
- [limitsLayoutForSuspiciousContents](uikit/nslayoutmanager/limitslayoutforsuspiciouscontents.md)
- [usesDefaultHyphenation](uikit/nslayoutmanager/usesdefaulthyphenation.md)