+2  A: 

At a glance I would say it's unicode characters which don't have a printable representation

JaredPar  2009-10-09 18:59:51
+1  A: 

What you are seeing is probably the result of an obfuscator. The characters are appearing as boxes because the font you are using in Reflector does not have a glyph for the character being shown.

I think Dotfuscator does this type of obfuscation. You can check by looking at the attributes of the assembly for a Dotfuscator attribute.

adrianbanks  2009-10-09 19:02:16
What really? im pretty sure they're just english character since the ddls i'm disassembling are from an english speaking company.
burnt1ce  2009-10-09 19:05:59
Some obfuscators can obfuscate strings within the assembly. I know Dotfuscator can do this.
adrianbanks  2009-10-09 19:08:58

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