in reply to Re: Removing multibyte UTF-8 chars from strings
in thread Removing multibyte UTF-8 chars from strings

Ya sorry, I was reading from a file and clipped the offending chars from that. The closing regex did the trick. Never heard of a "direction isolate."
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