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    Squares

    I've noticed that when I write a program that doesn't print valid data, Windows has a tendency to print off little boxes. Why?

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    they represent unsupported characters such as japaneese symbols your native character set dosn't contain

    ::edit:: or invalid characters which have no valid representation.
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    That's kinda what I thought - thanks no-one

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