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stumped · 12-13-2018, 01:58 AM

ok - after moving the cursor back and forth I got the invisible character named in the editor.
I had to put cursor on the 1st visible letter , then back arrow to get it to show at bottom right
the description then says Object Replacement Character
so I am none the wiser as to how/why it got to be there, but I reckon I can zap it with my previous planned regex, using not A-Z to track it down, I probably need not A-Z or " to cover all start of sentence possibilities

here is a wiki entry: for object replacement character
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EF%BF%BC

(computing) The object replacement character, sometimes used to represent an embedded object in a document when it is converted to plain text.

12-13-2018, 01:58 AM	#13
stumped Wizard Posts: 3,305 Karma: 10259306 Join Date: May 2016 Device: kobo forma, Kobo Libra, Huawei media Tab, fire HD10, PW3 HDX8.9,	ok - after moving the cursor back and forth I got the invisible character named in the editor. I had to put cursor on the 1st visible letter , then back arrow to get it to show at bottom right the description then says Object Replacement Character so I am none the wiser as to how/why it got to be there, but I reckon I can zap it with my previous planned regex, using not A-Z to track it down, I probably need not A-Z or " to cover all start of sentence possibilities here is a wiki entry: for object replacement character https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EF%BF%BC (computing) The object replacement character, sometimes used to represent an embedded object in a document when it is converted to plain text.