Odd character in shared folder name

Hi all,
i have a USB HD connected to my airport extreme. I havent seen this before, but i just created a new folder on that shared drive. When i view the contents of that drive in finder, the name of that particular folder has what appears to be a square with a X in it. Does anyone know what this characher is?
thanks

That is an illegal character as is the reverse slash. Stick with underscores and alpha-numerics for filenames.

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