Right. This is annoying me, I have to get an instant answer! Can somebody tell me why I get these symbols in all sorts of places on the Internet (Twitter, random web pages, etc.)? দইসাবু This may not seem like a particularly openSUSE-related question, but the reason I ask on this newsgroup is because it would seem that for many other computer users these symbols are replaced by meaningful characters, but on all my openSUSE installations I see these nonsensical symbols regularly. The thing is, it's possible that some of you won't know what I'm talking about if your own system interprets them correctly and shows the actual characters above, so for your benefit, I'm referring to little boxes the full height and width of a text character (or bigger), containing four hexadecimal figures. Like: ---- |04| |A6| ---- From their placement on Twitter I assume it's often emoticons or obscure symbols available in some Windows font I don't have that I should be seeing, maybe Wingdings or something like that. What is it about openSUSE / Linux / Firefox or whatever else that results in me seeing these hexadecimal boxes instead of the correct characters? I use UTF-8 system-wide. For a long while I genuinely thought it was some geeky meme that required people in the know to reference some list! Until I started seeing them in far too regular places, like on Wikipedia articles. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org