diff --git a/files/helpers/sanitize.py b/files/helpers/sanitize.py
index 6ad659281f..c7c213ea13 100644
--- a/files/helpers/sanitize.py
+++ b/files/helpers/sanitize.py
@@ -233,7 +233,8 @@ def sanitize(sanitized, golden=True, limit_pings=0, showmore=True, count_marseys
sanitized = strikethrough_regex.sub(r'\1\2', sanitized)
- sanitized = sanitized.replace('\u200e','').replace('\u200b','').replace("\ufeff", "").replace("𒐪","").replace("\u0589", ":")
+ # replacing zero width characters, overlines, fake colons
+ sanitized = sanitized.replace('\u200e','').replace('\u200b','').replace("\ufeff", "").replace("\u033f","").replace("\u0589", ":")
sanitized = reddit_regex.sub(r'\1/\2', sanitized)
sanitized = sub_regex.sub(r'\1/\2', sanitized)