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10-13-2008, 08:52 PM
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I eat dijon mustard.
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Is anyone else seeing these weird symbols all over the net?
I don't see them on this site. I don't have a virus or adware. They're all OVER flickr. At first out of the corner of my eye, it looks like some kind of Asian symbols but then when I look at them, they're squares w/ either numbers or letters inside (can't tell which). Anyone else?  |
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10-13-2008, 11:00 PM
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They are a particularly stupid iteration of unicode. I've been seeing them and not paying a whole lot of attention. Here is one that I saw on flickr:
Browser Test Page for Unicode Character 'HEAVY BLACK HEART' (U+2764)
Like it says, if you don't have the font, you won't see the character. Since I have no desire for sites downloading a bunch of fonts onto my computers, I see these characters when someone attempts to be cutsie.
Unicode is a very useful tool for extending the character set codes to different languages which use circumflexes, chinese characters, etc., but this is just a dumbing down to allow for codified trash. |
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10-14-2008, 03:46 PM
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Every once in awhile, I hit the edge of a key and hit another key. I'm not the best typist in the world. Sometimes I get one of those odd characters when it happens, but it happens so fast, it's kind of hard to analyze what I've done.
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10-14-2008, 06:27 PM
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I eat dijon mustard.
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Originally Posted by harry chickpea
They are a particularly stupid iteration of unicode. I've been seeing them and not paying a whole lot of attention. Here is one that I saw on flickr:
Browser Test Page for Unicode Character 'HEAVY BLACK HEART' (U+2764)
Like it says, if you don't have the font, you won't see the character. Since I have no desire for sites downloading a bunch of fonts onto my computers, I see these characters when someone attempts to be cutsie.
Unicode is a very useful tool for extending the character set codes to different languages which use circumflexes, chinese characters, etc., but this is just a dumbing down to allow for codified trash. |
Thank you! That is EXACTLY what I'm seeing. |
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10-14-2008, 07:11 PM
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secret agent
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Quote:
Originally Posted by harry chickpea
They are a particularly stupid iteration of unicode. I've been seeing them and not paying a whole lot of attention. Here is one that I saw on flickr:
Browser Test Page for Unicode Character 'HEAVY BLACK HEART' (U+2764)
Like it says, if you don't have the font, you won't see the character. Since I have no desire for sites downloading a bunch of fonts onto my computers, I see these characters when someone attempts to be cutsie.
Unicode is a very useful tool for extending the character set codes to different languages which use circumflexes, chinese characters, etc., but this is just a dumbing down to allow for codified trash. |
What are you supposed to see? All I see are hearts. Does that mean I don't have a font? |
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10-14-2008, 07:46 PM
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I eat dijon mustard.
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Fredericksburg
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ellie
What are you supposed to see? All I see are hearts. Does that mean I don't have a font?
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It means you do. |
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10-16-2008, 06:15 PM
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I eat dijon mustard.
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Fredericksburg
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How do I download it? anyone know? It's annoying to not be able to read stuff.
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