"OBJ" in a Dashed Box Showing Up in Place of Text

[Katheryne Helendale]

I've been seeing this a lot lately, particularly on Facebook. It's the letters OBJ enclosed in a dashed box, which I assume is a Unicode placeholder for an emoticon that can't be parsed. At first, I thought maybe it was a Chrome or Linux thing, but I'm seeing them on Chrome on Linux, Firefox on Linux, Chrome on Windows, and Chrome on Android. They just started appearing maybe a couple of weeks ago or so. Anyone know what's going on?

 

[Yure4u Sosa]

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[Essence Lumin]


Hmm, mysterious!


I don't know but it's Unicode U65532.

Someone on reddit says

It's a placeholder character (Unicode object replacement character (U65532)) that appears for an un-renderable character or object.

Probably whatever font you are using in your browser doesn't know how to display some other unicode character.

 

[Clara D.]

Whatever font Chrome is using hasn't kept up with new emojis would be my guess.

FWIW, in Windows I force Chrome to use Cambria (serif), Calibri (sans-serif), and Consolas (fixed) and don't seem to have any problems.

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[Katheryne Helendale]

I changed my default fonts in Chrome, but I'm still seeing the placeholders in Facebook. My guess is that iOS has added new characters to its fonts, and they haven't propogated out to non-iOS systems yet. It's the only thing I can think of.

 

[Plurabelle Laszlo]

they have released a flood of new emojis that my android phone can't read yet, so I guess it's that.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

This happens every year when the Unicode Consortium continues to discrominate against ferrets and releases a new load of emoji that don't include ferrets and then Apple (usually) pushes a new update that includes them before anyone else catches up.

Edit: Apple releases macOS Catalina 10.15.1 update with new Emoji, HomeKit Secure Video support, and more - 9to5Mac

 

[Plurabelle Laszlo]

this time around it was otters.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Why does everyone use sea otters for their otter emoji? Sea otters are assholes.

 

[Free]

Why does everyone use sea otters for their otter emoji? Sea otters are assholes.

The truth not discussed: Most emojis are assholes.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

The truth not discussed: Most emojis are assholes.

 

[Kara Spengler]

This happens every year when the Unicode Consortium continues to discrominate against ferrets and releases a new load of emoji that don't include ferrets and then Apple (usually) pushes a new update that includes them before anyone else catches up.

Edit: Apple releases macOS Catalina 10.15.1 update with new Emoji, HomeKit Secure Video support, and more - 9to5Mac

Ah yes, the time of year to pity the linguists at the unicode consortium who are tracking down what umlauts we need and then the big news in all the major papers is what emojis they added.

 

[Brenda Archer]

Ah yes, the time of year to pity the linguists at the unicode consortium who are tracking down what umlauts we need and then the big news in all the major papers is what emojis they added.

If this keeps going we will at some point have enough emojis to serve as hieroglyphic writing.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Way ahead of you.

𓀀𓀁𓀂𓀃𓀄𓀅𓀆𓀇𓀈𓀉𓀊𓀋𓀌𓀍𓀎𓀏𓀑𓀒𓀓𓀔𓀕𓁤...

 

[Kara Spengler]

Way ahead of you.

𓀀𓀁𓀂𓀃𓀄𓀅𓀆𓀇𓀈𓀉𓀊𓀋𓀌𓀍𓀎𓀏𓀑𓀒𓀓𓀔𓀕𓁤...

Well, we already have two modes:
. and -
0 and 1

 

[Essence Lumin]

Well, we already have two modes:
. and -
0 and 1

What is that? A Morse code thing? I'm not familiar with dots and dashes meaning 0 and 1. They don't in Morse code.

 

[Essence Lumin]

As for the original post, one of my friends posts on facebook and randomly has    characters. I don't know why. Maybe it's something to do with her having an old iphone? It doesn't matter but is a little odd.

 

[Kara Spengler]

What is that? A Morse code thing? I'm not familiar with dots and dashes meaning 0 and 1. They don't in Morse code.

I meant we had two systems we can use unicode for in addition to normal writing: morse code and binary. Not the most efficient methods, but they can be done.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I still don't comprehend but it probably doesn't matter. I have heard there are 10 kinds of people who understand binary, those who get it and those who do.

Signed - . ... ... . -. -.-. .

 

[Kara Spengler]

I still don't comprehend but it probably doesn't matter. I have heard there are 10 kinds of people who understand binary, those who get it and those who do.

Signed - . ... ... . -. -.-. .

NP,

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