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What is happening there is the composing software has a feature where it substitutes a different character code to improve the on-screen or printed appearance. So the browser shows you one thing but the characters when copied are not interpreted correctly when you paste elsewhere.It goes the other way too. A few years back, The Chicago Tribune changed their font (at least for the print edition, which I don't get anymore). When a word had two lower case "t"s together (like "better" or Everett" ), the horizontals of the "t"s (I assume that is a serif), overlapped and it looked like the symbol for "Pi" (π). Very odd looking. No one noticed this?
Another pet peeve, I couldn't recall how to type a Pi symbol, had to copy/paste. I know how to do degrees: ° (on my system "start" and oo) . Hmmm, "start" and PP gives ¶ (paragraph).
edit/add: OK, this will set the conspiracy theorists going: After submitting this, I turn to my email, and I just received:
Tales Of �������� (Was "Tales of Type", some chars not recognized)
https://tedium.co/2020/08/07/digita...m_campaign=Tedium_08_07_2020&utm_medium=email
do-do do-do do-do do-do(Twilight Zone theme)
-ERD50
EDIT: Actually, I am able to copy and paste that text successfully.
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