Mister Box

June 24, 2007 8:23 AM

My iBook displays the first character of this post as a box. I recently used DeLocalizer -- did I delete something important?
posted by popcassady to MetaFilter-Related at 8:23 AM (7 comments total)

Me too (Windows XP SP2/Firefox 2.0.0.4)
posted by grouse at 8:29 AM on June 24, 2007

i see the box too ... it's not your ibook
posted by pyramid termite at 8:41 AM on June 24, 2007

Me too, FF2 on XP. Differing unicode setups from platform to platform, probably.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:55 AM on June 24, 2007

I tried to get the box out of there using the admin interface and couldn't. I don't know what that is.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:13 AM on June 24, 2007

It's a DEL (delete) character. Jessamyn, your browser textbox probably doesn't know how to handle DEL -- but I bet if you copied the text part to the clipboard, did a "select all" and "delete" in the textbox, then pasted the clipboard, it'd be gone.
posted by mendel at 9:21 AM on June 24, 2007

That's a lot of work, mendel. I just close my left eye and turn my head to the right when reading that question.
posted by The Deej at 9:51 AM on June 24, 2007

I bet if you copied the text part to the clipboard, did a "select all" and "delete" in the textbox, then pasted the clipboard, it'd be gone.

That's great, that totally worked.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:33 AM on June 24, 2007