On 25/10/2007, randd wrote: > > Hi, all: > > Strange Character > ================= > In the help file pages (on an index page, generally between a number and a > description: eg., 1. Introduction) - and also inside of firefox - I'm seeing > a peculiar character I've never seen before. It's a small square with 4 > small characters inside it. It looks something like this (apologies in > advance for the ASCII art): > > + ----- + > | 2 0 | > | a 1 | > + ----- + > > I'm not certain what the four characters displayed inside the square are, > exactly; one of them does appear to be a 2 though. > > It doesn't seem to be replacing a character that ought to be there and > isn't; the best I can tell, everything that should be there is there. > LC_ALL is (and has been) set to "en_US.UTF-8"... Anyone seen this before?
The four characters are the Unicode character U+20A1, or whatever those characters are. This means that the glyph for that character does not exist in the font you are using. To see another example, go to an Asian website such as www.google.jp. There you will see more such characters. You can find out what each character is here: http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt. U+20A1 is in the currency section: 20A1 COLON SIGN * Costa Rica, El Salvador - Reece -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
