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3 minutes ago, Lonewolf6869 said:

this morning i wake up with an email from ubisoft that someone connected from china to my account and it was an ip there. when i tried to connect to that ip this text was written. when i inspected the connection the server would just tell status: error 500. i m just curious about it

 
 

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Generally the strange characters � show up when there is a failed conversion for symbols. Specifically the code is:

U+FFFD��REPLACEMENT CHARACTER

15 hours ago, Lonewolf6869 said:

Can someone help me decode this?
 

����ȷ���

as per your other post - i think some context would be good, where is this from, what is it regarding, etc.

 

could it be relating to emails?? here is a link - 

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1193450

 

Generally the strange characters � show up when there is a failed conversion for symbols. Specifically the code is:

U+FFFD��REPLACEMENT CHARACTER

The most common failed character is é as in cliché, but I also find this for ñ as in piñatas, but there are plenty of other failed conversions that it could be indicating.

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15 hours ago, UrbanFreestyle said:

i think some context would be good, where is this from, what is it regarding, etc.

15 hours ago, UrbanFreestyle said:

as per your other post - i think some context would be good, where is this from, what is it regarding, etc.

this morning i wake up with an email from ubisoft that someone connected from china to my account and it was an ip there. when i tried to connect to that ip this text was written. when i inspected the connection the server would just tell status: error 500. i m just curious about it

 
 
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3 minutes ago, Lonewolf6869 said:

this morning i wake up with an email from ubisoft that someone connected from china to my account and it was an ip there. when i tried to connect to that ip this text was written. when i inspected the connection the server would just tell status: error 500. i m just curious about it

 
 

as quoted above... 

Generally the strange characters � show up when there is a failed conversion for symbols. Specifically the code is:

U+FFFD��REPLACEMENT CHARACTER

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