On my fedora core 3 gnome desktop, I get a weird representation for U+FFFD. Here's what it looks like for you [�].
It's the "REPLACEMENT CHARACTER", and according to the following should be question mark enclosed in a solid diamond: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFFF0.pdf I've been told that this is also the representation on windows and OSX. However I'm getting a weird comma like thing, which Markus Kuhn _has_ made reference to here I think: http://www.w3.org/2001/06/utf-8-wrong/UTF-8-test.html In the gnome charmap applet it seems to be the nimbus and schoolbook (sans and serif) fallback fonts that have this weird representation. The (Misc) Fixed fonts do have the question mark as expected. So why this weird representation? I'm writing an app where I would like to display characters that are invalid in the current encoding, and the comma like thing it totally confusing for users. thanks, Pádraig. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
