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SmokeyPitt

It seems like spaces in posts have been randomly replaced by these: �

yzzi

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.

SmokeyPitt

lol...thanks yzzi.  At least now we have identified them!  

Also known as a replacement character:

Unicode character	Oct	Dec	Hex	HTML
	Results 1 - 1 of 1
�	replacement character	0177775	65533	0xFFFD	�

henapple

Obama is tagging your post...

JohnInCarolina

I believe that's the universal shorthand for Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

boatbum

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.

caliking

The   's are all up in chrome too.

yzzi

Yeah, it's in chrome version 29.0.1547.57

Eggcelsior

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.

CeeGeeW

My guess is iphone emoticons (fancy smiley faces).

yzzi

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.

Eggcelsior

) :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.

SmokeyPitt

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).

SmokeyPitt

Oops...yes I do!

Chris_Wang

@JohnInCarolina lol. We use that all the time here in the office. We also like Delta Bravo Alpha Golf and Mike Foxtrot Echo Romeo.

SmokeyPitt

For some reason it appears to be after a periods and two spaces.  Let me see.  Yep, there it is.

sumoconnell

Can I ask questions with it  

Good.

nolaegghead

Vanilla has a bug in their server.  They're using the wrong unicode character interpretation for a combo of common characters.

JohnInCarolina

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!

JohnInCarolina

Well that's interesting.

Eggcelsior

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.

Botch

^^^    Ozric Tentacles?  

Village Idiot

Obvious.  It's the start of the Zombie Apocalypse.  8-X

Tjcoley

In addition to the ? characters, now it's changing letters.  Dropping the 'A' from the word at.  Changing 'Ju" in just to a y

lousubcap

Definitely irritating, especially now that it appears to have mutated as noted by @Tjcoley.

SmokeyPitt

I feel like Ron Burgandy when I read all the posts today. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sABVhW1tc14

Aviator

Now, let me see.....

Aviator

Looks like I am clean. Maybe I ought to write some more.

Buckdodger

henapple said:

Obama is tagging your post...

That's fur sure...that's for dang sure !!!

Hungry Joe

edited by me.

Did Syria hack this site?