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/vbulle...k?t=259250
test (BFT made a change): ??? This is a test and this uses curly quotes. Theyre 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 ?
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/vbulle...k?t=259250
test (BFT made a change): ??? This is a test and this uses curly quotes. Theyre 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 ?