On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/15/2009 01:30 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>>
>> As a side question, some of the tags have non-ASCII characters in
>> them, and "id3v2 -l" shows them as an unprintable glyph. Sort of a
>> vertical black hexagon with a ? inside.
>
> <side issue comment>
> Could that actually be a black diamond with a question mark? If so, that
> would be the unicode character
> U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
> ..
> Notes:
> • used to replace an incoming character whose value is unknown or
> unrepresentable in Unicode
>
> (see gucharmap, "Specials")
Looked like a hexagon to me. With pointy sides up and down. But it
could have been a diamond.
The first noted character is actually u umlaut. Known to users of the
German language.
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