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Help! I am getting strange errors when I try and save my abstract

You go to save your abstract and get a unicode error.

If you see something like:

Exception Type
UnicodeDecodeError

Exception Value
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 25: ordinal not in range(128)

Make sure your abstract is plain ascii text and avoid special characters if possible. This can happen if you are cutting and pasting from another program such as Microsoft word with the "Smart Quotes" feature turned on. Or you are using other extended characters that are not part of the standard keyboard mappings.
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