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Steven, To add to the oddity factor. Taking the document we had and opening it on a Mac (in MS Word) showed the dodgy characters up (cannot remember how it looked exactly though). The other reason that springs to mind is if the student has used another word processing package and exported the document...? Possibly Word 2007 -> Word 2003 or Open Office. Have you tried resubmitting the document without the codes? Does it look suspect? David >>> Steven Bentley <[log in to unmask]> 05/29/08 2:07 PM >>> Sandy, It was mainly caught because the lecturer strongly suspected it was plagiarised, so we looked into it more closely. On the originality report, each of the swapped characters had been replaced with a ? Character. Having scratched my head about why it looked fine in Word, copied and pasted into Notepad fine but went wrong in Turnitin I exported the HTML for the document and had a look at the code and saw it was littered with HTML entity codes like ϯ Steve -----Original Message----- From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sandy Steacy Sent: 29 May 2008 13:58 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [PLAGIARISM] Non-standard characters to fool Turnitin? Steve, How did you catch this? It's something I've never heard of before and quite worrying. Thanks, Sandy This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability. ************************************************************************* You are subscribed to the JISC Plagiarism mailing list. To Unsubscribe, change your subscription options, or access list archives, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PLAGIARISM.html ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* You are subscribed to the JISC Plagiarism mailing list. To Unsubscribe, change your subscription options, or access list archives, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PLAGIARISM.html *************************************************************************