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There are standards for handling this, but there are also variations that various people/organizations use.  The canonical response to a violation of the standard is to drop the suspect character, because if two different readers interpret it differently, the difference might open a security hole.  What you're seeing is not a drop, but a translation of the character to a question mark, though even that might open a security hole.

Unfortunately, Microsoft is not known for strict adherence to standards.  I don't know what library TNBW is using, but it too might decide that non-latin characters (including the barred symbols used by some latin-character Slavic languages) are unsafe.

I suspect that the transfer is made using HTML, which should be unambiguous even though Microsoft violates the standards left, right, east, west, in, out, and six times on Sunday.  That means that TNBW ought to be able to handle it.  But depending on how well the code base is organized by separation of concerns, it might be a hellacious fix with lots of problems introduced mid-flight.

Trump has a virtue that may yet save him.  He learns from his mistakes.  I cannot see that in any of our currrent crop of politicians, for too few have had to pay for their mistakes.

Both are in my portfolio.

I've been distracted lately, though I expect to be getting back to reviewing soon.  And my newest distraction, which may be enough to drive the mental earworm out, is a question of thematic material.

But the earworm is burrowing on.

FWIW, I went south to view the eclipse and ran into not only eclipse traffic but the traffic moving kids to universities and leaving them there.  I was away for about 67 hours and spent 38 or 39 of them on the road ... half of it in bumper to bumper traffic.  Less than 1,800 miles and my car decided it wanted its oil changed again.

If they're orange.

You can say 'you have a problem here' without adding 'and it stinks, you runny turd!'

Who would profit?  Anyone who could get a redirect to a site that one in ten million people might actually engage.

I,suggest you don't click on OK.  Try the return button

And get the governments of the world to declare those who spread computer malware 'the common enemies of mankind' so that they may be despatched summarily.

Don't lie.

Say that you wondered why he didn't take this opportunity or that.  Mention things that did work.

And get more advice than this before you start

Current work:
Prose tweaks per above.
Thinking through and outlining the 'turn-the-tide' healing Maurand chapter.  I'd written it a while ago, but it doesn't quite fit the timeline.  Fitting it will probably mean expanding it a little, and I don't mind doing that.  I also want to torture Shassa and Engalt a bit.
Planning some of Melayne's adventures.  I plan to run her into a World she and Caneth had visited in the past.  That calls for a big flashback/reminiscence, which means (a) I have to keep it short while having it big (oops) and I need to work out some of the dynamics between the much younger Caneth and Melayne.
In line with those dynamics, a very small change to Merran's reminiscence of the death of Bartell.  You  might not even notice it.

I'll probably do some minor prose tweaks.  Nothing major.  If you're planning on doing a review, don't let that stop you.