These are the "start of string" and "string terminator" characters. Unclear about their use, but it appears they are almost certainly not part of name strings.

Aachen, Johann \230von\234 1552-1615

\230 #x98 \234 #x9c

von

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• clean this char that has an ampersand glyph but is not ampersand: ＆ hex ff06

http://shannon.village.virginia.edu:8088/xtf/data/ead_taro/taro/sjmh/00064.r004.xml

/data/source/findingAids/taro/sjmh/00064.xml

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The dreaded "Left-to-Right Embedding". The text below should not even be rendered left-to-right.

I think there's a regex in clean.pl to deal with this. See: git@github.com:snac-cooperative/snac_ead_to_cpf.git

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