Can anybody tell me what these are?
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April 12, 2008 · Filed Under Technology and Gadgets
I’ve been seeing these odd symbols on quite a few websites recently, and even within Google search results. I don’t know what they are, or why they are there?
Anyone care to enlighten me?
Here’s a picture of these mysterious critters:
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I guess they are just some kind of Spam.
Those characters usually appear when there is a problem of charset detection (for example: text in japanese/cyrillic/arab and you don’t have japanese/cyrillic/arab charset installed, or your browser cant’t recognize it.)
Thanks for the opinions Rajab and Marco.
However, I think Marco is right - it’s simply down to character recognition, no more, no less.
All the best,
Alex