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So what about quotation marks? - Plainsman - 01-08-2020 I couldn?t find any other place to put this so here it is... Why do I get question marks when I try to enter quotation marks or single QMs (inverted commas, as our Brit friends say? ) What?s the trick? So what about quotation marks? - LR1955 - 01-08-2020 PM: Was wondering the same thing. Not only you but a couple others on the forum. It's kind of bothersome. Will let the computer gurus take that one. I have no clue. LR55 So what about quotation marks? - BluntForceTrauma - 01-08-2020 Been puzzling over that myself. When first posted, symbols replaced with question marks. But if I edit it later, it comes out correct. So what about quotation marks? - Popeye212 - 01-08-2020 Russians trying to influence the next election. Trying to steal your vote.... So what about quotation marks? - grayfox - 01-08-2020 Somehow the text editor you're using is not understandable by the forum's webpage... may be that your editor inserts an ampersand (&) signifying a non-alpha character for those marks... Some quote marks are coded as a "straight" mark whereas some have the curly look... I think that makes a difference to some web pages down deep in the coding. Been out of the business for a while but probably caused down in the hex codes for those characters. So what about quotation marks? - Plainsman - 01-08-2020 Looks like lots of other posters are having the same problem. I'm on a Mac. This is the only site I have this problem on. Seems really strange that it can't handle such a simple job. So what about quotation marks? - FLshooter - 01-08-2020 Does the same thing with my iPad. But if I were to use the computer it doesn’t do that. So what about quotation marks? - stanc - 01-08-2020 On my computer, I have not had a problem with punctuation symbols which I type myself. But, when I copy and paste from another site, apostrophes are turned into question marks. So what about quotation marks? - grayfox - 01-11-2020 test of text with alternate quote marks/apostrophes. [FONT=&quot]26 But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]27 So the men marveled, saying, [a]“Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”[/FONT] So what about quotation marks? - teppou - 01-29-2020 The problem is that some editors like to get cute with their character encodings. There are multiple definitions of quote marks: normal ASCII quote: 0x22 (hexadecimal 22 = decimal 34) Unicode left double quotation mark: 0x201C Unicode right double quotation mark: 0x201D Some editors try to predict which quotation mark you're using and convert the plain quote mark that you type on your keyboard to the left (?) or right (?) mark. If the software or font that is used to display the text does not support those Unicode characters, then a '?' mark is displayed. This might be overkill, but here is the ASCII chart with quote mark highlighted: [ATTACH=CONFIG]15399[/ATTACH] And here are the Unicode double-quote marks. [ATTACH=CONFIG]15400[/ATTACH] edit: Ha! Although I created this post in the forum's editor, and could see the double quotes as I edited, they were replaced with '?' marks when I posted. It's probably something that the admins can fix by selecting appropriate fonts. https://forum.vbulletin.com/forum/vbulletin-legacy-versions-products/legacy-vbulletin-versions/vbulletin-3-6-questions-problems-and-troubleshooting/265581-language-charset-problems-things-to-check?t=259250 test (BFT made a change): ??? This is a test and “this uses curly quotes”. They’re onto me now. Another "test" with a different style of quote mark. No kanji ?? though. 0022 QUOTATION MARK " (ASCII) 0027 APOSTROPHE ' (ASCII) 2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK ‘ 2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK ’ 201A SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK ‚ 201B SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK ? 201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK “ 201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK ” 201E DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK „ 201F DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK ?