when i print this characters in facebook status it makes a rubbish like !̸̶͚͖͖̩̻̩̗͍̮̙̈͊͛̈͒̍̐ͣͩ̋ͨ̓̊̌̈̊́̚͝͠ͅ and it seems to be everywhere not in facebook only i searched and it was found to be "Iota" the ninth character in the Greek alphabet , does it appear rubbish because i'm pasting it with non-ascii or another format or what ? i'm really interested to know
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Aaaaand now you broke StackOverflow too :) Should a bug report be filed? – Vladislav Zorov Nov 10 '11 at 15:55
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btw, it's `iota`, not `lota` (`i` not `L`) – Piskvor left the building Nov 11 '11 at 05:28
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The font used doesn't contain that character - not every font contains every Unicode character.
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so it appears as rubbish isn't it supposed to appear as a square [] – Hady Elsahar Nov 10 '11 at 15:02
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okay , so obviously it's an encoding problem , if u changed the encoding in the browser u'll find it changing to another characters – Hady Elsahar Nov 11 '11 at 01:22
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Perhaps. See this for other possibilities: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html – Piskvor left the building Nov 11 '11 at 05:03