From what I can tell, the issue of puunctuation in SIC ads... or rather, borders, has been a long standing thing. I feel it's time that certain bits of punctuation were filtered out by @access strip_ascii
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However, I see a flaw with your suggestion. If you remove those (strip them) then the encryption keys will get fucked up and some things others type up can get messed up.
Just from that perspective.