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I installed 16.04 and was setting it up and moving some files from an external drive (Fat32 and made in OSX).

Some of the files display this very odd character on Xubuntu 14.04

I think these symbols appear in place of periods or some periods it seems

example of odd character

When I copy and paste the name from Properties, it shows up as the Yeti head looking symbol in most places including terminal

In IRC and Firefoxes url bar it displays as a box with FO on top and 22 on bottom inside the box like this:

display of character

In shell it shows the weird symbol as: " instead of the yeti head or the FO22 box when I do an ls to that directory

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The downvotes are probably because people, looking at the title, think you are asking an elementary OS problem, which is off-topic here. But since you also have it on Xubuntu, I don't think it off topic. – Bharadwaj Raju May 29 '16 at 7:42
    
Here, have an upvote (for the above-mentioned reasons).' – Bharadwaj Raju May 29 '16 at 7:42
    
Don't add "why was this downvoted" to the question, it just makes it hard to read, use comments. The downvotes are due to people just seeing EOS and jumping on it, we ONLY support the *buntus, I remove all references to EOS, that should stop the downvotes. – Mark Kirby May 29 '16 at 10:05
    
I guess that that is because of the encoding. What encoding did you use on OSX? And what encoding did you choose when mounting the partition? – dadexix86 May 29 '16 at 10:14
    
Thanks for explanations everyone. I was disheartened to see it go into the negatives and not know why. I thought including that another OS did the same thing (one with an Ubuntu heritage like Elementary Freya) would be helpful. Thanks for helping with title @Mark Kirby. – hastiko May 29 '16 at 15:26

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