How to find special/weird characters in Excel?

FlashDota

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I attached below some rows I have which you can clearly tell have some weird characters in the text. Is there a formula to find which rows have any of these characters, and which don't. I think that these aren't all of the special characters in the texts, meaning there might be other that I didn't include here but you can clearly see it is what I am looking for.
Ideally, I just want the formula to return True/False (has weird characters / doesn't have weird characters)


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Ahmed Sylla raconte comment il s'est fait virer de l'école
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Ink Artistry Gone Wild! 🖋ï¸
Les moments les plus iconiques de Scarlett Johansson ✨
How Gossip Girl's cast looks like after 11 years off screen 😱
 

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Book1
ABC
1TextHas weird character?
2Ses expériences avant de devenir acteur | Jonathan CohenTRUE
3Ahmed Sylla raconte comment il s'est fait virer de l'écoleTRUE
4Can You Take Short Hair to New Heights? Discover the Transformation! 💇✨TRUE
5Ink Artistry Gone Wild! 🖋ï¸TRUE
6Les moments les plus iconiques de Scarlett Johansson ✨TRUE
7How Gossip Girl's cast looks like after 11 years off screen 😱TRUE
8abc 123FALSE
9agsf~!@#$%^&*()_+=?FALSE
10I attached below some rows I haveFALSE
11
Sheet2
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
B2:B10B2=SUM(--(CODE(MID(A2,SEQUENCE(LEN(A2)),1))>126))>0
 
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Book1
ABC
1TextHas weird character?
2Ses expériences avant de devenir acteur | Jonathan CohenTRUE
3Ahmed Sylla raconte comment il s'est fait virer de l'écoleTRUE
4Can You Take Short Hair to New Heights? Discover the Transformation! 💇✨TRUE
5Ink Artistry Gone Wild! 🖋ï¸TRUE
6Les moments les plus iconiques de Scarlett Johansson ✨TRUE
7How Gossip Girl's cast looks like after 11 years off screen 😱TRUE
8abc 123FALSE
9agsf~!@#$%^&*()_+=?FALSE
10I attached below some rows I haveFALSE
11
Sheet2
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
B2:B10B2=SUM(--(CODE(MID(A2,SEQUENCE(LEN(A2)),1))>126))>0
Thank you very much, that worked!
 
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