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why do sometimes text symbols appear as boxes with numbers/letters in them ?

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i have changed the encoding from western(iso-8859-1) to Unicode (utf-8) as some friend of mine suggested but nothing is changed

i have changed the encoding from western(iso-8859-1) to Unicode (utf-8) as some friend of mine suggested but nothing is changed

Isisombululo esikhethiwe

You see little boxes with the hex code if you do not have a font that covers that Unicode range. ❀‿❀

You can try DejaVu Sans and Symbola to see if that brings some of them.

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Isisombululo Esikhethiwe

You see little boxes with the hex code if you do not have a font that covers that Unicode range. ❀‿❀

You can try DejaVu Sans and Symbola to see if that brings some of them.

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thank you very much DejaVu Sans font covers most of them