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What is the meaning/purpose of the little square boxes that are now showing up in sentences? I don't see a key with a square on my key board to make them! Asking for a friend!
With a full keyboard, you use the keypad on the right. There’s a “Character”(?) chart on Windows somewhere that shows which numbers produce whatever characters.
With a full keyboard, you use the keypad on the right. There’s a “Character”(?) chart on Windows somewhere that shows which numbers produce whatever characters.
Sigh,,, this is because there is no universal keyboard decoding. The character bit map for each device(laptop, iPhone, Android, desktop, whatever) is slightly different. Punctuation marks are often the bit map that is tripped up. Notice, that rarely is there any trouble with the characters for a through z and A through Z, and 0 through 9. Those characters always decode the same way from the same keyboard bit map, to the same printable characters on the screen/tablet/device. The various punctuation marks sometimes have an 'unprintable' bit map decode, and the default for an 'unprintable' bit map is to just use the box character. Simple, and it keeps the text encoder/decoder from crashing when an unprintable character is encountered in a string of 'text'.
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Originally Posted by poorwhiteguy
Sigh,,, this is because there is no universal keyboard decoding. The character bit map for each device(laptop, iPhone, Android, desktop, whatever) is slightly different. Punctuation marks are often the bit map that is tripped up. Notice, that rarely is there any trouble with the characters for a through z and A through Z, and 0 through 9. Those characters always decode the same way from the same keyboard bit map, to the same printable characters on the screen/tablet/device. The various punctuation marks sometimes have an 'unprintable' bit map decode, and the default for an 'unprintable' bit map is to just use the box character. Simple, and it keeps the text encoder/decoder from crashing when an unprintable character is encountered in a string of 'text'.
The little squares that replace punctuation occur when the government, usually FBI or CIA, reads your post for subversive statements. They're technology is old and leaves the telltale squares. Nothing to worry about.....until you hear a knock at the door.
Little square boxes in sentences?
