If You Paste to Notepad

Bitter Clinger: Always paste into notepad and then copy that.

(and even that doesn't work sometimes lately. Something to do with the text encoding but I haven't figured it out yet exactly what)

I've never understood who pasting to then copying from Notepad is supposed to work.

If you paste to Notepad and try to save in ANSI format and it tells you to use Unicode, that at least tells you that the text has characters that will choke Pixy, but it won't change them in the text - unless you save the file in ANSI and re-open it, AfAIK, and even then, you'll lose the characters, not fix them.

Best to run it through the Unicode repair site
http://bit.ly/pixyize
but if your browser won't let you do ampersands, even that won't work.

All this and more moronsplained in the survival guide.
http://bit.ly/aoshq-csg