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What does a square symbol mean ? - Randi Trantham - 10-01-2012 12:51 AM
What does a square symbol mean on twitter or in a text message?!
- Richard - 10-01-2012 12:59 AM
Those are special UTF-8 symbol codes. UTF-8 is a standard for text encoding, which is basically a huge table of all possible letters, characters, modifiers etc. which exist in the world (and then some). Each letter of text is assigned a number in this table. (The letter "a" for example has code 97). I think either that persons' phone or twitter messed up somewhere, and did a wrong letter-conversion. It could be that that person wanted to tweet an obscure symbol (to make a smiley or something) and it got lost somewhere in the conversion.
- DeAira - 10-01-2012 12:59 AM
Well a square symbol on twitter means your computer cannnot view the content or you have a system that does not allow you to see it. It doesnt neccesarily mean that the square symbols are bad things or swear words though. And Ive never had that happen to me over texting so I do not know!