The message contains invalid characters.

Help,


I'm trying to post a legitimate question but I keep getting this error that says "The message contains invalid characters."


I tried "rephrasing" my question several times but nothing helps, what is happening?

I'm getting the same problem, doe not help when Apple dont tell 'what' the "invalid Characters" are.


Not very helpful


Steve

Still happening and no reply from anyone.

I have found this frequently occurs when using voice dictation into an iOS device and pasting it into the box. On the Mac I paste the text I'm going to use for TestFlights into TextEdit, and all of the offending characters show up. Once removing them all, the post goes as expected.
I had the same issue.

I pasted my text line by line and found out that
"<" and ">" were the "invalid character" in my case.


Yes, the answer is here! It is the "<" symbol for me. I wrote "ß-hCG < 3,000", and I suspected it might be the beta curly character. But no, Yokemura above was right, it was the less-than symbol "<". My goodness, bad design by Apple. I don't mind that for whatever reason certain characters cannot be accepted. But please tell me which is the offending character!
  • -JS

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