I discovered that on my small server those who hadn't turned off the "force Unicode font" option under languages would see signs written without it differently. It is because when MC isn't forcing Unicode fonts, more characters can be squished into the signs. The images are signs written with Unicode font off.
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MC-261341
Sign formatting bug
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