where you've got weird special characters, that's because those aren't compatible with standard formatting. you need to tell it what ascii to use with an ampersand followed by the set characters and a semicolon. I use this ( https://www.ascii-code.com/ ) for reference, you want the HTML number row. For example, m-dash (—) has to be called with —

this includes in comments btw i had to actually use the html code to even write the calling code because otherwise it would've just made an —

@heoism DAMN okay i didnt know that thanks! I think the weird characters are from me copypasting from google and wikipedia, didnt notice them until now. thanks!