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WhiteKnight
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025

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Cannot submit my user review – error message unclear

I'm not able to submit my user review. When I do, I get the following error message: "Sorry, your submission contains the following invalid characters: ​. Please correct them and resubmit." No invalid characters are listet in the error message. Moreover, I don't think my user review contains any "invalid characters". Who can I contact to report this bug?

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owenrees

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2 months ago

The usual reason for that message with nothing apparently between the colon and the full stop is usually that you have some invisible characters. It is not unusual for various editors to be unhelpfully clever and insert soft hyphens or zero width spaces into your text. If you create the text with such an editor and copy and paste, the invisible characters will be included. If you have a simple plain text editor, paste the text into that then copy it out again. That should remove the invisible characters. If you have a keyboard with cursor keys that let you step through the text one character at a time try doing that with the error message and you will probably find a place where the cursor does not move - that is where the invisible character can be found.

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WhiteKnight

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Thanks, owen! That was indeed the issue! You've been a great help! Google Translate apparently added an invisible \u200B unicode character ("zero-width space") to my text. FWIW, for anyone interested, here's a PowerShell script examining a text file for its characters and their code points: $file = 'TextFile.txt'; $txt = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($file); $chars= @{}; for ([int]$i = 0; $i -lt $txt.Length; ++$i) { $c = $txt[$i]; $cp = [int]$c; if ($chars.ContainsKey($cp)) { ++$chars[$cp]['count'] } else { $chars[$cp] = @{ 'count' = 1; 'index' = $i; 'char' = $c; } } }; $chars | Format-Table To use it, replace "TextFile.txt" with the actual path to your text file. When this script is run, the "index" value listed for each character is the position of the first occurence of that character in the file. With it you can find that character in the text.

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