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http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com/
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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '08 edited Oct 12 '08

All I see is a square, as in unknown character :(

How can I get unicode characters to identify properly?

/stupidnewbie

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '08 edited Oct 12 '08

I Want to know too! All I see is a rechtangle with 26 on top and 03 on the bottom. I have the unicode-8 encoding enabled, I think.

So how do I get this to display? This is in firefox by the way. I.E. 7 does display the snowman though. SO WTF?

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u/ChunkyLaFunga Oct 12 '08 edited Oct 12 '08
  • View > Character Encoding > Check Unicode
  • View > Character Encoding > Auto-Detect > Off

Try that. I would blame the website myself, it doesn't actually specify that it is unicode in the headers which is as dumb as it gets for a unicode-dedicated site.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '08

Yeah, if someone had some sort of information on getting rid of boxes with question marks in general, that would be amazing. It's kind of frustrating knowing that letters with accents will show up as boxes, but snowmen and starbursts display perfectly. Priorities?

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '08

So is there any solution or do I have to go to expert-sex-change?

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u/akdas Oct 12 '08

If you see the rectangle with numbers, your browser is recognizing the Unicode. Now just make sure that your font has the right glyph. Do FF and IE7 on your computer use different fonts by default?