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I suspect the browser.... 12/04/2012, 10:45:04

Bones writes: Did the strange symbols only show up after I put the light up? The lights are working for me in Firefox16(64) and IE8(64).

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So do I. Or the fonts. - Ramillies ( Tue 04-Dec-12 12:00:37 ) It also works perfectly in Chrome. (n/t) - Peter2 ( Tue 04-Dec-12 19:14:54 ) +1 I think it's font issue, because those boxes are Unicode 'replacement characters'. - Ramillies ( Wed 05-Dec-12 10:38:39 ) +1 That's what has me perplexed.... - Bones ( Wed 05-Dec-12 13:36:18 ) +1 Oh! That's really interesting! - Ramillies ( Wed 05-Dec-12 15:06:40 ) +1 The DIV tag took the place of frames.... - Bones ( Thu 06-Dec-12 00:29:15 ) +1 Naturally. - Ramillies ( Thu 06-Dec-12 02:05:54 ) +1 Ah. That idiom would be 'monster'. (n/t) - Bones ( Thu 06-Dec-12 09:57:13 ) +2 Well --- so thanks for the English lesson at least (n/t) - Ramillies ( Thu 06-Dec-12 12:04:46 ) (OT). Another English lesson, please? - Ramillies ( Wed 12-Dec-12 14:19:55 ) +1 As best I can ... - Peter2 ( Wed 12-Dec-12 16:18:47 ) +2 Being from the U.S. and separated by a common language from the English.. - Ragwort ( Wed 12-Dec-12 21:19:14 ) +1 It's difficult to analyse your own language. - Peter2 ( Thu 13-Dec-12 09:05:41 ) Peter has demonstrated an idiom that differs between the Americans and English. - Bones ( Thu 13-Dec-12 19:25:11 ) +1 Reminds me of a cartoon I saw years ago illustrating another difference between the American and English languages - Peter2 ( Sat 15-Dec-12 05:57:43 ) +1 In 73', was on a 5 week high school tour of Europe. First stop from airport, - Ragwort ( Sat 15-Dec-12 14:26:44 ) +1 1956, school exchange with the pupils of a French school . . . - Peter2 ( Sat 15-Dec-12 16:26:19 )