? Why do question marks appear when a post is sometimes answered
the rocket said
11:03 AM Oct 10, 2016
Why do question marks appear in someones sentence n now find it in my biography. any clues.
Cupie said
11:55 AM Oct 10, 2016
Buggared if I know. It's happening to me too.
Webmaster said
12:04 PM Oct 10, 2016
Hi all, Yes - it is very strange. I have written to our Sparklit experts to see if they can shed some light on why it happens ... and hopefully they can fix the problem as well. I'll keep you all posted on this. Cindy
the rocket said
12:43 PM Oct 10, 2016
Dthanks cindy.
Happywanderer said
04:06 PM Oct 10, 2016
Mines now doing it too.
Aus-Kiwi said
05:10 PM Oct 10, 2016
We are being followed .
Tony Bev said
05:23 PM Oct 10, 2016
Tongue in cheek
I hope that they are not following me as their leader
Because...
If I am the best there is, then God help us all
Dougwe said
05:54 PM Oct 10, 2016
I have had that for a while now plus the spell checker seems to have gone as well.
JohnR said
06:16 PM Oct 10, 2016
Appears to me that there is a double space between text where the ? marks appear in a line of text and that the return key has been pressed with no text then entered on that line where the ? appear below text. Could be wrong but worth checking.
OwenK said
07:48 PM Oct 10, 2016
I also have them, I shall try JohnR's thing and see if they go away.
Cheers Owen.
OwenK said
07:49 PM Oct 10, 2016
I also have them, I shall try JohnR's thing and see if they go away.
Cheers Owen.
OwenK said
07:54 PM Oct 10, 2016
Still there, and I made sure I didn't put double spaces in or hit the return key.
Cheers Owen.
iana said
12:23 AM Oct 11, 2016
My spell chequer dosen't work any more, wife ipad does the funny diamond after a operating system upgrade.
PS I'm livid, Windows the Bast--rds had done an upgrade on my windows 10, and when I thought I hade Edge home page sorted, I now have heaps of, I'll call it stuff to be polite in my face, and I don't seem to be able to remove it this time.
Joe50 said
02:11 AM Oct 11, 2016
I'm thinking that those affected have recently had an operating system upgrade to their device of choice (PC, tablet, phone) and it is now using a character set that creates some strange characters that the Forum's software is unable to interpret, so it substitutes the black diamond question mark. I copied some of the affected posts above and pasted them into Windows Notepad (which also displayed the question mark), then tried to save them as a plain text file but got an error message saying the text contained Unicode characters. I could only save it if I selected Unicode encoding instead of ANSI. I'm still using Win 8.1 and haven't seen my posts affected. Would be interesting to know what devices/OS versions the affected posts are being submitted from.
Joe
Dougwe said
08:17 AM Oct 11, 2016
I had to buy a new Laptop a few moons back and now run with Windows 10. It does many strange things indeed. Maybe I'm the strange one though :(
Grubbygypsy said
08:34 AM Oct 11, 2016
I thought it was changing the use of emocons. Every time I use one it comes out like that. Like this š
iana said
08:36 AM Oct 11, 2016
Are you using "Edge" Dougwe, I finally found out how to have a home page clear of all that news and advertising trash, but my concern considering we have mobile internet, is, is all that trash downloaded each time I access the home page, whether I see it or not?
We get 8GB of data under or plan, and are currently nudging 15GB at $10 a GB when over, thankyou Mr windows and others.
Well I now have a pretty blue bird on the screen, and probably heaps of other stuff I won't use. Bring back an operating system on a disk like it used to be.
Still no spelling checker though.
JohnR said
10:23 AM Oct 11, 2016
Owen,
I can see you still have double spacing or blank lines where the question marks are. You will need to fix this in your signature as well to get rid of them there.
Cadpete said
11:34 AM Oct 11, 2016
Joe50 wrote:
I'm thinking that those affected have recently had an operating system upgrade to their device of choice (PC, tablet, phone) and it is now using a character set that creates some strange characters that the Forum's software is unable to interpret, so it substitutes the black diamond question mark. I copied some of the affected posts above and pasted them into Windows Notepad (which also displayed the question mark), then tried to save them as a plain text file but got an error message saying the text contained Unicode characters. I could only save it if I selected Unicode encoding instead of ANSI. I'm still using Win 8.1 and haven't seen my posts affected. Would be interesting to know what devices/OS versions the affected posts are being submitted from.
Joe
Not so Joe. I'm getting them and have windows vista and 7 - both with automatic upgrades switched off and havn't upgraded either for at least a few weeks. Noticed that a post I did yesterday had the question mark diamonds :)
woofta and precious said
11:47 AM Oct 11, 2016
It does the same thing on another website for me. I think it's the emoticons that aren't supported??
Swoffer said
11:50 AM Oct 11, 2016
I'm making a tinfoil hat just in case .
Its just not worth the risk .
PeterD said
12:11 PM Oct 11, 2016
These blocky question marks also appear in Firefox, so it does not have anything to do with Edge or Internet Explorer browsers.
Swoffer said
12:28 PM Oct 11, 2016
Ok so this is just a test to see if it is spacing that is causing them .
Ok so this is just a test to see if it is spacing that is causing them .
Swoffer said
12:29 PM Oct 11, 2016
It would appear to be so .
The Belmont Bear said
03:47 PM Oct 11, 2016
I noticed the questions marks appearing in everyone's posts including my own a few days ago since then I have read all the different suggestions from people about what may be causing them. I happened to be reading some old posts about road etiquette between RVs and semis dated sometime in 2014 and found that all those posts now had the same question marks - I may be wrong but I think that this more likely to be something to do with the programming than what people are doing when typing. I am using either an iMac or an iPad Pro with Safari as the web browser.
-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Tuesday 11th of October 2016 03:48:15 PM
-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Tuesday 11th of October 2016 03:48:45 PM
-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Tuesday 11th of October 2016 03:51:45 PM
OwenK said
08:01 PM Oct 11, 2016
Thanks JohnR, I will try redoing things see how it goes.
Cheers Owen.
OwenK said
08:03 PM Oct 11, 2016
Well done JohnR, all fixed.
Cheers Owen.
-- Edited by OwenK on Tuesday 11th of October 2016 08:03:57 PM
JohnR said
08:49 PM Oct 11, 2016
Owen & Others
Spaces and lines with nothing on them is the problem. If you have these errors in your signature and in your text you will have ???
My Good Lady had a look at the issues this morning and confirmed the reason. In her past life she managed a Website for a National Professional Organization here in Canberra and was well aware of the problem.
Cheers
JohnR
PeterD said
08:25 AM Oct 12, 2016
Looks like Cindys tex-spurt has got rid of them.
Webmaster said
09:21 AM Oct 12, 2016
Hi all, Yes - mystery solved! Our IT people have said it was a coding error their end and they have fixed it. Hoorah!
Why do question marks appear in someones sentence n now find it in my biography. any clues.
Buggared if I know. It's happening to me too.
Hi all,
Yes - it is very strange. I have written to our Sparklit experts to see if they can shed some light on why it happens ... and hopefully they can fix the problem as well. I'll keep you all posted on this.
Cindy
Dthanks cindy.
Tongue in cheek
I hope that they are not following me as their leader
Because...
If I am the best there is, then God help us all
I also have them, I shall try JohnR's thing and see if they go away.
Cheers Owen.
I also have them, I shall try JohnR's thing and see if they go away.
Cheers Owen.
Still there, and I made sure I didn't put double spaces in or hit the return key.
Cheers Owen.
PS I'm livid, Windows the Bast--rds had done an upgrade on my windows 10, and when I thought I hade Edge home page sorted, I now have heaps of, I'll call it stuff to be polite in my face, and I don't seem to be able to remove it this time.
Joe
We get 8GB of data under or plan, and are currently nudging 15GB at $10 a GB when over, thankyou Mr windows and others.
Well I now have a pretty blue bird on the screen, and probably heaps of other stuff I won't use. Bring back an operating system on a disk like it used to be.
Still no spelling checker though.
Owen,
I can see you still have double spacing or blank lines where the question marks are. You will need to fix this in your signature as well to get rid of them there.
Not so Joe. I'm getting them and have windows vista and 7 - both with automatic upgrades switched off and havn't upgraded either for at least a few weeks. Noticed that a post I did yesterday had the question mark diamonds :)
I'm making a tinfoil hat just in case .
Its just not worth the risk .
Ok so this is just a test to see if it is spacing that is causing them .
Ok so this is just a test to see if it is spacing that is causing them .
It would appear to be so .
I noticed the questions marks appearing in everyone's posts including my own a few days ago since then I have read all the different suggestions from people about what may be causing them. I happened to be reading some old posts about road etiquette between RVs and semis dated sometime in 2014 and found that all those posts now had the same question marks - I may be wrong but I think that this more likely to be something to do with the programming than what people are doing when typing. I am using either an iMac or an iPad Pro with Safari as the web browser.
-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Tuesday 11th of October 2016 03:48:15 PM
-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Tuesday 11th of October 2016 03:48:45 PM
-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Tuesday 11th of October 2016 03:51:45 PM
Thanks JohnR, I will try redoing things see how it goes.
Cheers Owen.
Well done JohnR, all fixed.
Cheers Owen.
-- Edited by OwenK on Tuesday 11th of October 2016 08:03:57 PM
Owen & Others
Spaces and lines with nothing on them is the problem. If you have these errors in your signature and in your text you will have ???
My Good Lady had a look at the issues this morning and confirmed the reason. In her past life she managed a Website for a National Professional Organization here in Canberra and was well aware of the problem.
Cheers
JohnR
Hi all,
Yes - mystery solved! Our IT people have said it was a coding error their end and they have fixed it. Hoorah!