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EarlG

(23,581 posts)

2. It's nothing nefarious

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 11:32 PM

Tuesday

If you copy and paste from an article which is using curly quotes, or some other special character, and for some reason there's an encoding issue, the character will show up as a weird glyph.

It might be possible to fix at your end (see this article), but it might be a DU issue. Either way, it's nothing to worry about from a security perspective.