Contractors

[ichabod801]

It turned out to be as bad as I expected. They're just searching for individual characters, including !, $, ;, and :. This is in a web form that is one of the sources for the database I supervise, for a field expecting English text, possibly several paragraphs of it. I checked the full list "illegal" characters against all of the online submissions from 2016, and 35.8% were rejected. (None of them should have been rejected).