What does  mean?

[Togath]

at the title implies, I noticed this odd symbol in a post today, and haven't been able to figure out the meaning of .

link to relevant post (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=15173307#post15173307)

[Hand_of_Vecna]

Non standard characters that you don't have the proper plugin to view.

[Mando Knight]

It occurred because whatever Roland was using to post at the time failed to parse his wishes.

[TuggyNE]

U+EF01 is a private use character, so it's probably some sort of weird glitch. Transmission error, maybe.

[Ashtagon]

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ef01/browsertest.htm
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ef01/fontsupport.htm

That should give you some idea. I have no idea what script that is, if any. Most fonts seem to render it as an acute accent with no supported glyph underneath.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConScript_Unicode_Registry

It's definitely not something registered on the Conlang Script unicode ranges.

[GrlumpTheElder]

On my phone, it appears to be a Japanese chatacter:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/b9e1a9933b06f728886166fc2e8eb050/tumblr_mmcbqmfMAX1s296n2o1_250.jpg

[Ashtagon]

Well, if that's the character in question, it means "before", and is pronounced "sen" (as in "sensei").

[Ikialev]

It's a square, OP.

[Emmerask]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb8Y38eilRM
:smalltongue:

though it could also be a
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JP-ZhwrxzI

Or what the others have said but I think the video explains it well too :smallwink:

/edit the first video is much better