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!!!128035;!!!127793;!!!128007 = Copy & Pasting?

Unless it's just me that's seeing random numbers in competition posts like !!!128035;!!!127793;!!!128007?
I'm guessing the original post may of included some kind of emoji's or similar

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  • One-Eye
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    Unicode characters have been turned off in a bid to prevent non-English character-based Spam and now only ASCII characters are acceptable. Unfortunately this also affects some normal punctuation. This is a particular problem where text is copied from an external source. Certain devices also use unicode punctuation as standard.


    8216 is left single quotation and 8217 is right single quotation/apostrophe, 8220 and 8221 are right and left double quotation. Only the ASCII neutral (vertical) quotation marks are acceptable now ( ' and " ). The same is true with 8211 En Dash which is not allowed but the shorter hyphen is OK.


    En !!!8211; dash
    !!!8216;single quotes!!!8217;
    !!!8220;double quotes!!!8221;
    apostrophe!!!8217;
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