Yeah, that’s my guess - whatever is generating the excerpt is probably the right place. Just not sure where that is in the code itself. But knowing to look for the term “excerpt” is definitely helpful - thanks!
It did look to me like it was coming across as iso-8859-1 at some point, so appreciate that confirmation as well (I wasn’t 100% sure that was the mis-encoding I was seeing, but it seemed right).
What you saw on try.discourse.org is what I saw in my dockerized installation as well (well, the end result of the encoding being correct 
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Thanks!