HTML chars have strange chars that show up as little square boxes, but are something else?

The text below was cut 'n past from an HTML file.
When I pasted it into a text field of an Access 97
table, it looked different than it does below.

Below, you can see that the first 3 lines have
hard returns at the end of each line (carriage
return and line feed). But what I see pasted
into an A97 table field is a single string with
little square boxes at the ends of these lines.
I see VIN:, a box, then 12 spaces, then </strong>,
another box, 12 more spaces... and so on.

I would like to determine the ASCII value of
these little boxes. If I paste them in to the
immediate window, they do not appear as
little boxes, but as hard returns. Anybody
know what they are?


VIN:
</strong>
2C1MR5295S6702239
</td>

re: HTML chars have strange chars that show up as little square boxes, but are something else?

Those little boxes are the "hard returns". (Actually, a CR and a LF).

Change the field to a Memo Field to "see" them work.