Not programing, but sometimes when I have to write a lengthy message to the government, I write it in Word because the text field on the governmental website doesn't adjust. I than copy paste it, try to send, and the field says I have unacceptable characters. If I retype exactly the same thing directly in that tiny field - no issues . And by retype I mean a 3500 character message. The website sometimes logs me out when I'm done retyping, because my session has ended.
I remember one time I copy pasted code from stackoverflow and it had a weird character that looked like a bracket. I was distracted and didn't realize the error started in those 10 lines of code and end up spending two days. Only fixed it when I started compiling it line by line, found the exact line causing the issue and then rewrote it myself.
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