Talk:Specials (Unicode block)

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Where is the summary? I can't figure out how to display one... 205.228.108.57 (talk) 03:33, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am getting these replacement characters on web pages that I have visited many times. They didn't have these characters before. What's going on? (I did get a new computer last year.) AlbertSM (talk) 19:53, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Replacement character and mojibake in the Web

I removed a piece of hard PoV in favor of lame webmasters and HTTPd admins, introduced by user: Spitzak and, possibly, another contributors. It would be "obviously superior for the end user" if we all had to die tomorrow, but it is also "obviously" that if there was a strong and continuous pressure against developers of non-compliant HTTPds, lame OS admins and another botchers since 1997, then we would not have today so much text encoding troubles. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 09:43, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

slash* I pʀopose that "⟨?⟩" should redirect to "Replacement Character". It has such dɪffeʀent ɪnfo that ɪt waʀʀents a sepeʀate aʀtɪcle. UniformMilk192 (talk) 22:12, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ban mojibake and remove Garbage Characters Halloweenboy118 (talk) 14:32, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Replacement Characters

Much of the text around replacement characters is a very one-sided opinion piece. Wikipedia shouldn't be the place to try to indoctrinate programmers of text editors to one's point of view. And the suggestion "just save the file as it was" completely ignores the problems of users changing or copy and pasting that part of the file from one point to another. If the editor is editing it in UTF-8, then it should presume the user has made UTF-8 text, even if the editor had provided mojibake to begin with.

However, that is all beside the point as "how do replacement characters get introduced" is only a small part of "what is a replacement character".

The suggestion to pretend that the underlying data was Windows-1252 is a further US-centric viewpoint and doesn't help if you already have a U+FFFD in your data. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krestadroxefotk (talk • contribs) 18:28, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect

Should be a redirection when you type "�" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:8A8D:FE80:51DB:21D8:A022:6B34 (talk) 17:49, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For technical reasons it is not possible to create [[�]] on Wikipedia. BabelStone (talk) 18:58, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Rhombus

Why is the replacement character described as a black rhombus with a white question mark when it's a square? Granted, all squares are rhombuses … But then, why not call it a rectangle? Or a quadrilateral? Or even a polygon? Aeron --2A01:CB1D:2E8:D000:223B:609C:AD60:6D0 (talk) 09:06, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing because most fonts (at least on my Windows 11 laptop) use a rhombus for U+FFFD instead of a square. The Unicode chart does use a rotated square but as noted at the top of the chart "The shapes of the reference glyphs used in these code charts are not prescriptive. Considerable variation is to be expected in actual fonts.". DRMcCreedy (talk) 15:18, 10 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]