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All throughout the apple ios dev programming guide I get these weird symbols. Anyone know what they are? I'm just curious. They look like tiny little boxes with 4 numbers inside.

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I see nothing but quotes. –  bmargulies Jan 8 '11 at 2:51
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closed as too localized by Flexo, Bill the Lizard May 17 '12 at 15:04


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It is typically a multibyte character which is not understood. The numbers read the unicode codepoint in hex. It may mean the encoding of the page is set to the wrong value, or that your browser can't handle it.

Try and see if another browser shows it differently.

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It's a character that is not present in the font that is used to show the text. The digits in the little box is the character code.

They probably used typographic quoation marks (for example ˮ) instead of the regular quotation marks (").

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