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character mangling

  • May 22, 2025
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It was suggested that I re-post this question in this forum:

 

"I've noticed that I can't copy/paste into and out of boxnotes without characters like double-quotes and double-dashes (" --) being turned into some other identical-looking character. So if I copy/paste something like a curl command with all of those things, it's so mangled (though it *looks*) the same, it causes errors and I end up erasing and re-typing all the non-alphanumeric characters every time. Has anyone else experienced this? It's a small time-suck I'd love to have a workaround for!"

 

For a screenshot, here's the original post: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360051292594-character-mangling?page=1

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    Experiencing this same issue when inserting URLs that have double hyphens into markdown files 

    https://example.com/--/example

    Oddly enough, it renders correctly here in this comment however if you paste that same URL into a Box file it will render as

    https://example.com/%E2%80%93/example

     Only way to record URL correctly is by using code tags which prevents it from being clickable when viewing from the Box UI.

    https://example.com/--/example

     

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