Cannot invite players with certain characters in guild name (<>)

[efunn]

I recently played in a private league where all players had the guild name <ART>™ and poe-lurker could not be used to invite/message players.

Logs from client.txt when clicking the invite button:

[INFO Client 20624] @From <<ART>™> Character_Name: Hi, I would like to buy your Morbid Duty, Cardinal Round Shield listed for 2024 gcp in BPL XV (PL51009) (stash tab "~price 2024 gcp"; position: left 18, top 22)
[INFO Client 20624] : The specified character does not exist.

Logs from PoE client.txt when clicking the button to send thank you message and kick them:

[INFO Client 20624] @To >: Character_Name ty
[INFO Client 20624] : The target of this operation was not a party member.
[INFO Client 20624] : Failed to send whisper to > because: The specified character does not exist.

I believe it was due to the < and > characters in the guild, but it could be the ™. My guess is that it parses the first > as the end of the guild name tag. But, it includes the character name in the attempted message, which seems weird, so it could be another parsing error.

Thank you for looking into this!