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    Can you recognise these symbols?

    I came across these symbols

    ?+F<]Ÿ™*—

    What font / style are the square ones?

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    Re: Can you recognise these symbols?

    Quote Originally Posted by Ceiber Boy View Post
    I came across these symbols

    ?+F<]Ÿ™*—

    What font / style are the square ones?
    The square ones mean that it can't find the symbol you want in the font you have selected

    is a Danish letter. It's similar to the sound of "ir" in "bird."

    In Spanish, "" is kind of a soft n, like "nj"

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    Re: Can you recognise these symbols?

    Quote Originally Posted by NCLI View Post
    The square ones mean that it can't find the symbol you want in the font you have selected

    is a Danish letter. It's similar to the sound of "ir" in "bird."

    In Spanish, "" is kind of a soft n, like "nj"
    The Spanish letter is more of an "ny" sound. In the alphabet it is pronounced "n-yay".
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    Re: Can you recognise these symbols?

    Quote Originally Posted by Windows Nerd View Post
    The Spanish letter is more of an "ny" sound. In the alphabet it is pronounced "n-yay".
    I agree, it's just hard to describe

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    Re: Can you recognise these symbols?

    Quote Originally Posted by Ceiber Boy View Post
    
    To replace the boxes with numbers in them with an actual character, install Unifont. Although complex glyphs won't render perfectly, "(t)he philosophy behind this font... is that anything meaningful is better than an empty box for a(n) unknown glyph" (from the Debian description of ttf-unifont). In a terminal, run...
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    sudo apt-get install ttf-unifont

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    Re: Can you recognise these symbols?

    Thank you everyone for you answers

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    Re: Can you recognise these symbols?

    Quote Originally Posted by NCLI View Post
    The square ones mean that it can't find the symbol you want in the font you have selected

    is a Danish letter. It's similar to the sound of "ir" in "bird."

    In Spanish, "" is kind of a soft n, like "nj"
    I see that this is true now, I'm looking at this on an iPhone and all the symbols are represented.

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