[Wikipedia-l] Box characters and question marks

Sun Sep 1 11:23:05 UTC 2002

At 01:32 AM 9/1/02 -0400, you wrote:
>I noticed that Quercusrobur was writing articles with lots of boxes in them, 
>and changed them to apostrophes. So I wrote him a note on his talk page 
>including a row of box characters (which I generated with "160 128 do i emit 
>loop"; I have no way to type them). I just checked the page and all the
boxes 
>have been turned into question marks! So I have three questions:
>
>1. How do people write articles with boxes?
>
>2. The people who write articles with boxes don't see them as boxes. They
see 
>them as apostrophes, dashes, ellipses, etc. How do we explain to them how to 
>avoid writing boxes?
>
>3. What changed the boxes to question marks?

The other day I tried out Jaguar (Apple's new 1 gigabyte operating system)
and suddenly the [[China/temp]] page blossumed with all sorts of neat
Chinese characters. I think if your browser doesn't recognise a character
it may render it as a box or question mark.

Fred