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by heinrich5991 3650 days ago
FWIW on my screen, they're really distinguishable: https://i.imgur.com/IdUK8MV.png.
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j4_james 3650 days ago
That looks like your browser is somehow misinterpreting the character set of the page. What you're seeing appears to be something like code page 437 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437) rather than unicode.

What browser/os are you using? Is it possible you're going through a proxy that is altering the HTTP headers?

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yrro 3650 days ago
Could be that he has a font that provides code page 437-like outlines for those codepoints.
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the8472 3650 days ago
The spade symbol[0] is codepoint 9824, the acknowledge control picture[1] (␆) is codepoint 9222. They shouldn't be using the same glyph.

[0] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2660/index.htm [1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2406/index.htm

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