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Sunday, November 30th, 2025

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I’m having trouble posting a review for the film Hawaii

I keep getting this message: Sorry, your submission contains the following invalid characters: ʻ. Please correct them and resubmit. I scanned my document but can’t find the problem.The text also appears as one big block without paragraph breaks.

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3 days ago

Hi tom_parslow,

💡 In order to prevent any invalid characters, a review should be written as simple text. Among existing software, some text editors provide the options to control that only simple text is written and saved, such as Notepad++ for Windows. When a text is copy-pasted from other (internet) sources to a rich-text editor, then it can include invisible non-ASCII (unicode) characters which are technically invalid for posting.

💡 If one is interested to reveal the invisible characters, there are online pages created specifically for this, among others: University of Wisconsin-Madison, SoSci Survey, Invisible Character Viewer, Invisible Characters.

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Thank you. That is great advice, and a surprise. I did swipe a couple of unusual Hawaiian names into my text. Although I haven't had this problem in the past, I will be very wary of it in the future.

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2 days ago

Thank you. Problem solved and review has uploaded.