I've hit something similar recently though thankfully it didn't cause significant problems¹: a left-to-right indicator, U+200E, at the end of a user's name. Ap

I've hit something similar recently though thankfully it didn't cause significant problems¹: a left-to-right indicator, U+200E, at the end of a user's name. Apparently Word has a habit of inserting these in fields, whether needed or not in the context, with any right-to-left language supporting language packs are installed. Once added they are silently maintained and depending on exactly what you select may get included when you copy the text out to paste elsewhere, or get included if you use some form of automation to read the field value directly from the document or Word itself. -------- [1] I noticed it while digging into some output to analyse a related issue, the file had been mashed together from content with different codepages in a way that meant it included invalid code points.