diff --git a/redbot/core/dev_commands.py b/redbot/core/dev_commands.py
index d0e400f2c..d67769662 100644
--- a/redbot/core/dev_commands.py
+++ b/redbot/core/dev_commands.py
@@ -42,6 +42,18 @@ _ = Translator("Dev", __file__)
 # - or "```" and potentially also strip a single "\n" if it follows it immediately
 START_CODE_BLOCK_RE = re.compile(r"^((```[\w.+\-]+\n+(?!```))|(```\n*))")
 
+REMOVE_CONTROL_CHARS = [
+    "\u2066",
+    "\u2067",
+    "\u2068",
+    "\u202A",
+    "\u202B",
+    "\u202D",
+    "\u202E",
+    "\u2069",
+    "\u202C",
+]
+
 T = TypeVar("T")
 
 
@@ -75,6 +87,8 @@ async def maybe_await(coro: Union[T, Awaitable[T], Awaitable[Awaitable[T]]]) ->
 
 def cleanup_code(content: str) -> str:
     """Automatically removes code blocks from the code."""
+    content = content.strip("".join(REMOVE_CONTROL_CHARS))
+
     # remove ```py\n```
     if content.startswith("```") and content.endswith("```"):
         return START_CODE_BLOCK_RE.sub("", content)[:-3].rstrip("\n")