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usonian

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1. Try retyping the offending text by hand.

Fri Aug 1, 2025, 05:58 PM

Aug 1

DU will reject some odd characters that look like "normal" ascii codes. Evil folks use them in phishing emails to make fake addresses look real.

One might have snuk into the text (this is from two diffrent "unicode" characters looking the same. )

Just my best guess. I have had some characters bounced back to me but forgot which ones. Typing new ones otta fix it if I guessed right.

ETA

If you are on a computer, copy the text into a PLAIN text editor. (Like a programming editor) Odd and invisible characters will show up. Examples: Sublime Text, BBEdit, not sure what's cross-platform. E.G. "show invisibles" and so on.

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I've stumbled across a strange problem posting a specific block of text. [View all] Ms. Toad Aug 1 OP

Try retyping the offending text by hand. usonian Aug 1 #1

I retyped it multiple times. Ms. Toad Aug 1 #3

Will try on the computer. usonian Aug 1 #5

Correct - Ms. Toad Aug 1 #10

OK - I replaced the double quote with 2 single quotes and it seems to work...wonder why? walkingman Aug 1 #2

"smart" quotes? usonian Aug 1 #4

Cool - never heard the term "smart" quotes - thank you. walkingman Aug 1 #6

They point in different directions, unlike "" usonian Aug 1 #9

I think I have to set the curly quote conversion in Word. Ms. Toad Aug 1 #13

It isn't even the entire quote. Ms. Toad Aug 1 #7

It's really bizarre. Ms. Toad Aug 1 #11

Test usonian Aug 1 #8

It's actually even narrower than what you have highlighted. Ms. Toad Aug 1 #12