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Getting an error when posting a movie review!!!

I am getting the following error msg when posting a review for the movie "Ain't Them Bodies Saints": Sorry, your submission contains the following invalid characters: ​. Please correct them and resubmit.

I've edited in many versions with/without character full stop and getting the same error. I've submitted many reviews and I've never had this issue before.

Please help.

Thanks

Luis

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3 years ago

It's probably not the full stop, but a space character that is not displayed, as in this earlier topic:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/unable-to-leave-a-review-strange-error-message/61f4d1aff0f05706cf756fa1

If you wrote the review in another program you may also have imported the special character. You should try to use a copy without such characters. You could try using this application, suggested by another user:

https://pteo.paranoiaworks.mobi/diacriticsremover/

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3 years ago

How did I find out the issue??

I removed paragraph by paragraph until I found the error. The issue was in the comma I used after the word "Actually,". This is very stupid as there weren't any special characters or invalid or soft-hyphen or non-breaking-space or invisible character... it was A COMMA!! IMDB tech team should fix this issue and make the review section exactly like this text box.

It's very frustrating to write a big review and then find out we can't post it because of an unknown error. Please make it more user-friendly!!