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Asked: 2026-05-16T22:41:36+00:00

I have some text coming into a database that apparently has some sort of

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I have some text coming into a database that apparently has some sort of Unicode issue. the literal text coming in is “5 mï ¿ ½ in area”, which appears to be some sort of unit of measure, but I can’t sort out what the meaning is in context. Searching Google shows many similar results, so this is apparently a common set of symbols.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s the Unicode replacement character, 0xFFFD (�); see also How to replace � in a string

    So I guess the text used to be 5m² in area, and the ² was garbled into � before it arrived in your database.

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