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I've searched the forums briefly so if this has already been answered please excuse this, but...

I have been having an issue with question mark characters (?) appearing all over my site (http://seas2success.x10hosting.com) in place of quotation marks and in other random places around links and images. Can someone please explain what's happening and if there are any escape sequence characters I should know about to 'escape' this dilemma?

Thanks in advance!
Deborah Dapo

 
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Hi i think i have a solution to your problem.

One little thing that may work is fixing up your double font commands that you have i.e.

Code: 
<font size="4"><font face="Comic Sans MS">

to this

Code: 
<font size="4" face="Comic Sans MS">

if this doesnt work than try this

firstly you need to edit the style tags area at the top from this

Code: 
<style type="text/css">body { margin:0px; background-color:#204274; color:#FFFFFF;}
a { text-decoration:none; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight: bold;  }
a:visited { text-decoration:none; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; }
a:hover { text-decoration:underline; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; }</style>

to this

Code: 
<style type="text/css">body { margin:0px; background-color:#204274; color:#FFFFFF;}
a { text-decoration:none; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; font: 14pt/16pt Comic Sans MS; }
a:visited { text-decoration:none; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; font: 14pt/16pt Comic Sans MS;}
a:hover { text-decoration:underline; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; font: 14pt/16pt Comic Sans MS; }</style>

now what i have done there is added the font selection in the style coding instead of useing the <font> code before the text.

just remember to remember to remove all the face="Comic Sans MS" commands like this one

<font face="Comic Sans MS">

if you have any other trouble please feel free to send me the html file and i will try and debug it for you just email it to me at jakecotton90@gmail.com.
 
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No, no no! You are all wrong!
The problem is with encoding.
You have written it in Windows-1252, but it may be rendering in UTF-8.
To fix this, you need to specify the encoding you use in the HEAD section of the HTML. Seeing as you are using HTML 4, you need:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=windows-1252" >

Check out this page:
http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset

Although I would recommend keeping utf-8 and saving the " in a different encoding (if you use notepad, when you save it, change where it says ANSI to UTF-8)
Edit:
PS. Just a style point, your text goes right to the edge, you may want to wrap it in a div with a small margin
ie:
<body>
<div style="margin:5%;">All your content</div>
</body>
 
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Well, kajasweb is right with quotes though, you need to use &quot; otherwise using " it thinks it's part of the code... not text.. But mattura is also right with the encoding thing, that's what is causing the problem with all the ?'s
 
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Thanks guys, for your responses.

Right now I believe the servers and such are being updated so my cPanel isn't working correctly, so I'll have to wait until they're fixed before I can fix the issues with my site.

Hopefully this is being caused by the update but, the one time I did manage to get into my cPanel, I noticed there were 2 out of 5 SQL databases being used by my domain, none of which that I've setup! I'm hoping that this is just an indication of the updates and not an indication of a security threat on my site.

In any event, I'll let you know the results as soon as I can get to it!
- Debbie
 
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