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I did a copy-paste from a PDF, the text that should have been pasted is:
(\<(/?[^\>]+)\>)
But, instead, I get some VERY strange characters. Demonstrated in the following screenshot:
The screenshot was taken from TextEdit, zoomed in a lot.
Does anyone have any idea as to what they are?
They are characters from the private use part of Unicode.
hence the "space alien"
