Wierd Characters in the "Promote" Box

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bluerook
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Wierd Characters in the "Promote" Box

Post by bluerook » Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:22 pm

My promote box had some weird characters in it. Today I was about to click move and realized that I was unsure if I would promote to a Q or something else. I opened display properties and made sure all fonts used in every spot was the same font - a common one. Didn't make any difference. The strange characters still appeared.

I was almost ready to inquire here about the weird characters when I realized I might try to access the same game on my wife's computer. I opened the game on her computer and the word "Queen" was right where it was supposed to be. I made the move on her computer without a problem.

An hour later I returned to my computer and the same game was on the screen (as of before the move was made). I hit F5 to refresh the screen and the word "Queen" was right where it was supposed to be on my computer.

Very strange.

The strange characters were a rectangular, a black down-arrow, two upside-down "L" characters and there may have been more.

Any comments will be appreciated. Insert "twilight zone" music here. :?:

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