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How come some letters and symbols come up as blocks with numbers in them? (Read 434 times)

Started by Nucka, March 21, 2009, 02:40:10 am
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How come some letters and symbols come up as blocks with numbers in them?
#1  March 21, 2009, 02:40:10 am
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I have Firefox.
With user Guardian Angel, for instance, in front of his name I get a block with numbers in it instead of the proper symbol. With other computers the symbol displays. Now these other computers I use are running Internet Explorer.
For some reason I can't open IE on my computer. I think it has something to do with my Anti-Virus software.
I've tried changing the Character Encoding settings in the View tab of Firefox, but nothing works.

Anybody have any ideas?

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Re: How come some letters and symbols come up as blocks with numbers in them?
#2  March 21, 2009, 02:48:25 am
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Yeah.
Will be encoding. I get the same thing on this Mac.

Make sure that you've got the "East Asian" additional language packs installed (it's somewhere in the Languages bit of the Control Panel on XP, not sure about other OSs), that might fix some of them. Afaik they come packaged with Windows but don't unpack until you tell them to.

As for the other symbols, I'm really not sure...

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Re: How come some letters and symbols come up as blocks with numbers in them?
#3  March 22, 2009, 09:05:11 pm
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Thank you very much, Mr. 3. It worked.
I am forever in your debt.
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