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ownedbycats · 12-12-2022, 01:53 PM

What a baffling problem: in one of my old legacy programs, non-ASCII characters suddenly don't work, all of them replaced by U+FFFD (the diamond ?).

This thing hasn't been updated in over a decade. I took out some backups from a time I knew it to work and it's broken there too.

EDIT: Thankfully, it just seems to be a rendering glitch; the U+FFFDs only appear in some places (the underlying data looks to be fine) and it works again if I re-enter the characters. I'm still not sure what would've caused it; perhaps a Windows Update changed something or idk.

12-12-2022, 01:53 PM	#1254
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,027 Karma: 75555555 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	What a baffling problem: in one of my old legacy programs, non-ASCII characters suddenly don't work, all of them replaced by U+FFFD (the diamond ?). This thing hasn't been updated in over a decade. I took out some backups from a time I knew it to work and it's broken there too. EDIT: Thankfully, it just seems to be a rendering glitch; the U+FFFDs only appear in some places (the underlying data looks to be fine) and it works again if I re-enter the characters. I'm still not sure what would've caused it; perhaps a Windows Update changed something or idk. Last edited by ownedbycats; 12-12-2022 at 02:49 PM.