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U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER is defined in the Unicode standard to replace an unknown, unrecognized, or unrepresentable character.U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
Specials is a short Unicode block of characters allocated at the very end of the Basic Multilingual Plane, at U+FFF0–FFFF. Of these 16 code points, five have been assigned since Unicode 3.0: U+FFF9 INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR, marks start of annotated text.
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is defined in the Unicode standard to replace an unknown, unrecognized, or unrepresentable character.

How to solve the Unicode character view problem in Microsoft Office?

Dec 16, 2018 · Frederik Long. Replied on December 16, 2018. To illustrate your problem, please use snippingtool.exe to create a snapshot of these dialogue boxes. Save the snapshot to your desktop, then attach it to your reply. Report abuse.

What is a replacement character in a text file?

May 15, 2008 · The data entered into the corrupted machine will insert unrecognized characters (square boxes) into an ntext column. (example : Coder213 [] [] is having big [] [] problems.) It looks like everytime a character return is hit in the application the [] [] show up.

What are special characters in Unicode?

Dec 16, 2005 · unrecognized character I am trying to SEARCH or FIND a text string in an excel file without any luck. The character is a hyphen (-) and the excel function (see about) says it can't see it. 28 (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding (1968) My end result will be to extract the artist from the list of 500 songs.

What is the block name in Unicode 1?

Dec 24, 2021 · You could try checking the byte number of each character to see if it’s a standard one byte UTF-8 character, it would look something like this: local function CheckString (Str) local Result = "" for i, v in ipairs(string.split(Str, "")) do if string.byte(v) < 128 then Result ..= v end end return Result end print(CheckString("abc d")) --Returns abcd

Why am I seeing boxes instead text?

Boxes show up when there is a mismatch between Unicode characters in the document and those supported by the font. Specifically, the boxes represent characters not supported by the selected font.20-Oct-2008

What character is FFFE?

Technical informationNameUnicode numberU+FFFEHTML-code￾CSS-code\FFFEBlockSpecials1 more row

What is the square character?

Square SymbolsSquare SymbolSquare NameDecimal■Black Square■□White Square□▢White Square With Rounded Corners▢▣White Square Containing Black Small Square▣16 more rows

What does â € œ mean?

“ is "Mojibake" for “ . You could try to avoid the non-ascii quotes, but that would only delay getting back into trouble. You need to use utf8mb4 in your tables and connections. See this for the likely causes of Mojibake.31-Dec-2017

What is BOM character?

What is a byte-order mark? At the beginning of a page that uses a Unicode character encoding you may find some bytes that represent the Unicode code point U+FEFF BYTE ORDER MARK (abbreviated as BOM ). The name BYTE ORDER MARK is an alias for the original character name ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE (ZWNBSP).

Should I use BOM?

BOM use is optional. Its presence interferes with the use of UTF-8 by software that does not expect non-ASCII bytes at the start of a file but that could otherwise handle the text stream.

What does this emoji mean ⬛?

The black small square emoji is often used for decorating your speech. It is also sometimes used with the same meaning as a normal black square which represents the stop button on audio devices or as a bullet point in a list. Black Small Square Emoji can mean “Let's stop watching this movie. It's boring.”.

What is the meaning of □?

Symbol. □ (geometry) A quadrilateral, usually referred to a square or rectangle.

How do you type a box?

Add a text boxGo to Insert > Text Box, and then select Draw Text Box.Click or tap in the document, and drag to draw the text box the size that you want.To add text to a text box, select inside the text box, and then type or paste text. Notes:

Why do I see strange characters in outlook?

Weird characters appearing in the text of a reply email in Outlook can be caused by using the wrong email encoding, AutoFormat settings in Word, wrong text formatting or a corrupted Outlook profile.

What is encoding Windows-1252?

Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (code page 1252) is a single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet, used by default in the legacy components of Microsoft Windows for English and many European languages including Spanish, French, and German.

What is a € mean?

euro signThe euro sign (€) is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and unilaterally adopted by Kosovo and Montenegro. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996.

Configure Windows to use extra fonts

For this fix, you need to install the fonts that contain the special characters, and then your browser will be able to use them. Windows XP needs to be told to allow the installation of additional languages though, so you need to go into Control Panel to enable the option.

Installing the required font using Office

If you have Microsoft Office 2000 or a newer version, you can install the Arial Unicode MS font. Arial Unicode MS is basically a customized version of the standard Arial font which adds some things like Ideographic layout tables and glyphs while also tweaking the font dimensions slightly.

Install the font manually

If you don’t have Microsoft Office or don’t wish to install all the supplemental languages for Windows, there is another way to get the Arial Unicode MS font to help with the glyph and Unicode characters. Simply download the font from the link below and copy it to your C:\Windows\Fonts folder.

Replacement character

The replacement character � (often displayed as a black rhombus with a white question mark) is a symbol found in the Unicode standard at code point U+FFFD in the Specials table. It is used to indicate problems when a system is unable to render a stream of data to a correct symbol.

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Specials block:

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