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SmokeyPitt
SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
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It seems like spaces in posts have been randomly replaced by these: �

Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • yzzi
    yzzi Posts: 1,843
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    I believe, but I could very well be wrong, that they are question marks inside a rotated black square. I thought it was a diamond shape at first, but they appear to be squares when you look closely.
    Dunedin, FL
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
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    lol...thanks yzzi.  At least now we have identified them!  

    Also known as a replacement character:

    Unicode characterOctDecHexHTML
    Results 1 - 1 of 1
    �replacement character0177775655330xFFFD�


    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • henapple
    henapple Posts: 16,025
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    Obama is tagging your post...
    Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN 
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 30,943
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    I believe that's the universal shorthand for Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
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  • boatbum
    boatbum Posts: 1,273
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    Which browser are you using?   I was using IE10 - was having problems.  Someone on here suggested changing browsers.   

    Site works good with chrome, went in this morning with IE 10 again, blah - all kinds of issues.

    Cookin in Texas
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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 18,731
    edited August 2013
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    The   's are all up in chrome too.

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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  • yzzi
    yzzi Posts: 1,843
    edited August 2013
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    Yeah, it's in chrome version 29.0.1547.57
    Dunedin, FL
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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
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    I wonder if it is a specific browser that it is occurring in but all can see it. I have seen it in Chrome, Mozilla, Samsung browser and Dolphin. It hasn't appeared in any of my posts from Chrome or Dolphin.
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  • CeeGeeW
    CeeGeeW Posts: 113
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    My guess is iphone emoticons (fancy smiley faces).
    Los Angeles, CA
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  • yzzi
    yzzi Posts: 1,843
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    I don't think it's specific to a browser. If you look at the html source you'll see the character right in there. Looks to be a vanilla issue returning the character for some reason.
    Dunedin, FL
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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    edited August 2013
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    ;):)) :D :P

    EDIT: I was trying to see if it was a specific emoticon. I reviewed other posts and it seemed to appear when one of these would have been used.
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
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    Yeah- I have seen it in a few different browsers as well.  It appears to be a UTF-8 special character that indicates there is unknown data.  I don't think I have seen it in any of my posts (except where I copied and pasted it).

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
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    Oops...yes I do!


    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • Chris_Wang
    Chris_Wang Posts: 1,254
    edited August 2013
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    @JohnInCarolina lol. We use that all the time here in the office. We also like Delta Bravo Alpha Golf and Mike Foxtrot Echo Romeo.

    Ball Ground, GA

    ATL Sports Homer

     

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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    edited August 2013
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    For some reason it appears to be after a periods and two spaces.  Let me see.  Yep, there it is.

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • sumoconnell
    sumoconnell Posts: 1,932
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    Can I ask questions with it  

    Good.
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Austin, Texas.  I'm the guy holding a beer.
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
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    Vanilla has a bug in their server.  They're using the wrong unicode character interpretation for a combo of common characters.
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    I love lamp..
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 30,943
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    Chris_Wang said:
    @JohnInCarolina lol. We use that all the time here in the office. We also like Delta Bravo Alpha Golf and Mike Foxtrot Echo Romeo.
    My six year old daughter asked me what WTF means recently. Luckily, she seemed satisfied with Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

    In any case, none of these weird symbols are appearing in any of my posts, so I don't know what the problem is with the rest of you peasants!
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 30,943
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    Well that's interesting.
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike
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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
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    I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
    I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
    I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,
    From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
    I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,
    I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
    About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news---
    With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

    I'm very good at integral and differential calculus,
    I know the scientific names of beings animalculous;
    In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
    I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

    I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's,
    I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
    I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
    In conics I can floor peculiarities parablous.
    I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
    I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes,
    Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
    And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

    Then I can write a washing bill in Balylonic cuneiform,
    And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform;
    In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
    I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

    In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
    When I can tell at sight a chassepôt rifle from a javelin,
    When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
    And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
    When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
    When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery:
    In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy,
    You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee---

    For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
    Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
    But still in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
    I am the very model of a modern Major-General.




    Hmmm.... Still nothing.
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 15,467
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    ^^^    Ozric Tentacles?  
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    Remember when teachers used to say 'You won't have a calculator everywhere you go'?  Well, we showed them.


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  • Village Idiot
    Village Idiot Posts: 6,959
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    Obvious.  It's the start of the Zombie Apocalypse.  8-X
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    Dripping Springs, Texas.
    Just west of Austintatious


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  • Tjcoley
    Tjcoley Posts: 3,551
    edited August 2013
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    In addition to the ? characters, now it's changing letters.  Dropping the 'A' from the word at.  Changing 'Ju" in just to a y
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    It's not a science, it's an art. And it's flawed.
    - Camp Hill, PA
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 32,332
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    Definitely irritating, especially now that it appears to have mutated as noted by @Tjcoley.
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period.
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  • SmokeyPitt
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    I feel like Ron Burgandy when I read all the posts today. 


    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • Aviator
    Aviator Posts: 1,757
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    Now, let me see.....

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    Large and Small BGE, Blackstone 36 and a baby black Kub.

    Chattanooga, TN.

     

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  • Aviator
    Aviator Posts: 1,757
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    Looks like I am clean. Maybe I ought to write some more.

    ______________________________________________ 

    Large and Small BGE, Blackstone 36 and a baby black Kub.

    Chattanooga, TN.

     

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  • Buckdodger
    Buckdodger Posts: 957
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    henapple said:
    Obama is tagging your post...
    That's fur sure...that's for dang sure !!!

    Opelika, Alabama
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  • Hungry Joe
    Hungry Joe Posts: 1,567
    edited August 2013
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    edited by me.

    Did Syria hack this site?

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