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[chopper]

Wut ?

[MrNoBody]

happens when words, phrases, or syntax upset its moral compass.

Select & Cut the entire post.
Replace with a . or ?
Post
Go back & edit, replacing the single character with the cut post (paste).
Save
Should post as normal.

Don't know why, but it always works for me.

[ztirffritz]

It doesn't like degree symbols or diameter symbols, or didn't the last time I checked.

ø ° ± ½ Æ

edit: looks like one or the other has been fixed since I last checked.

[cbelt3]

It also gets wozzled by most unicode specialized characters.

[MrNoBody]

wozzled ?
I'm amazed that didn't set off the MRF profanity alarm.
One letter difference:
urbandictionary

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Also triggers if you try to post characters that aren't on "Western" language keyboards (Japanese/Korean/Chinese/etc.).

[RAMd®d]

Yes, it's most likely some kind of special character, or a 'typical' letter, number, or character that looks 'normal' but isn't an accepted unicode character.

I've had that same problem a few times, and solved it by typing in the text instead of CnP'ing it.

But that's a no-go on longish articles.

I wish there was an app that could divine what a site finds acceptable, then show what characters in sample text in red as not acceptable.

But it's not that big of a deal to me.

[pdq]

I look for long hyphens, curly quotes, or underscores in the text (which usually get in there if you’re cutting and pasting some of your post from another source).

Also, I discovered the other day that you can’t use any iOS emojis.