How do I correctly display special characters in my Firefox browser?

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Published on 2011-01-03T18:52:32Z Indexed on 2011/01/03 18:55 UTC
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(Firefox 3.6.13 on Windows XP)

Every once in a while I notice an odd character on certain web pages when browsing the web. It is a outline of a box with a 4-digit number inside.

And example of a page that has these characters is: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#highlights

After each section heading (Elastic, Completely Controlled, ...) I see a box with the number "0096" inside. I looked at the cached version on Google, and google has – in it's place, so I'm guessing I should be seeing a dash there instead of the box with the numbers in it.

I have tried changing the character encoding in Firefox but haven't been able to find one that shows these characters correctly.

Is there a way to allow Firefox to view these characters?

Thanks in advance!

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