Why once 'umlaut+black rectangle' and once '?+?'

[Alexander Volovics]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 06:09:35AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
 
> > Why does the "unicode bug" get expressed in 2 different ways
> > on 2 different laptops:
 
> I've seen it both ways on the same machine. Once when it
> appears in the grub menu (? and ?) and once when it is
> printed in the boot messages (with the block instead of
> the apostrophe).

Curious. It appears, so far, to be consistent on both laptops here.

AV