# Boxes in Crafter man\`s posts.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxes-in-crafter-man-s-posts/180868>\
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**Created:** [June 10, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxes-in-crafter-man-s-posts/180868 "2003-06-10T14:35:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxes-in-crafter-man-s-posts/180868/21 "2003-06-11T12:44:03Z")

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Okay, sorry, that didn’t go over so good. My last post just had boxes in it.

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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxes-in-crafter-man-s-posts/180868/22 "2003-06-11T13:11:42Z")

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**Ethilrist** , what were your quotes supposed to look like? Is this it? Unicode x2780?

➀

…No, that looks different for me. Sigh…

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxes-in-crafter-man-s-posts/180868/23 "2003-06-12T12:21:15Z")

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No. Boxes! They were just boxes! [sub]I hate having to explain jokes![/sub]

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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxes-in-crafter-man-s-posts/180868/24 "2003-06-12T19:41:58Z")

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Well, how did you make them? Because they don’t look like boxes to me.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxes-in-crafter-man-s-posts/180868/25 "2003-06-12T19:50:51Z")

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Quoth **Ethelrist** :

> [@](#):
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> Then there’s these quotes:
> 
>  and 

For both of these, I see a letter A inside a box, and possibly with some sort of accent over the A (it’s kind of small). I presume that they’re guilimots?

And for **Achernar** ’s Unicode x2780 ( ➀ ), I see a circle with the numeral 1 inside.

Other than that, all of the characters in this thread seem to display properly, on the Mac version of Mozilla.

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxes-in-crafter-man-s-posts/180868/26 "2003-06-12T19:56:24Z")

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whimper.

I opened up MS Word, clicked on Insert Symbol, found the symbol for a box, and used that. Then I typed the rest of the text, copied and pasted into the post, and that’s it.

You people are no fun at _all._

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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boxes-in-crafter-man-s-posts/180868/27 "2003-06-12T20:43:31Z")

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And what, a box is fun? 😛 No, I was just very curious, to see how someone accessed a bizarre symbol without knowing how. Thanks!

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