On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Leo Broukhis <[email protected]> wrote: >> Most platforms display unknown printable characters as white >> rectangles with hex digits in them. >> In Doug's message, I saw a rectangle with 01F in the upper row, and >> 3F3 in the lower row.
> > This is a handy feature, at least for character geeks like us, but "most > > platforms" might be a bit misleading here. There is a rather commonly > > used platform that starts with the letter W which does not do this. > > I was a little surprised myself when I saw it in Firefox under W7 > Enterprise, but here we are. "Most platforms" is quite misleading. Rather the converse: for the vast majority of people, the programs that they use on the devices they have will *not* show unknown printable characters in a format with readable hex digits. Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>
