Why do my apostrophes turn into question marks?
Question marks usually appear in a message’s text if your e-mail program does not know how to display the actual typographical character used by the sender. Certain types of quotation marks, apostrophes and foreign accents are typically the characters that may be rendered incorrectly.
Why do symbols like apostrophes and hyphens get replaced with black diamonds on my website?
You need to change your text to ‘Plain text’ before pasting into the HTML document. This looks like an error I’ve had before by pasting straight from MS word. MS word and other rich text editors often place hidden or invalid chars into your code.
Why do I see question marks in my SMS message instead of the original characters?
This happens when using characters in a message that are not part of the generic GSM7 character set. To successfully send these characters you will need to use Unicode encoding.
What is smart punctuation on my Iphone?
With iOS 11, Apple introduced Smart Punctuation. By default, this feature automatically converts ambidextrous straight quotes to curly quotes, in addition to converting two hyphens (–) to an em dash (—). In the case of quotes, it also replaces the straight apostrophes and quotes with language-specific glyphs.
Why does a diamond with a question mark in it appear in my HTML?
The replacement character (often displayed as a black rhombus with a white question mark) is a symbol found in the Unicode standard at code point U+FFFD in the Specials table. It is used to indicate problems when a system is unable to render a stream of data to a correct symbol.
What does a diamond shape with a question mark mean?
What does 3 question marks mean in a text?
It is because a single question mark suffices to point out that the sentence is indeed a question. Two question marks indicate a much more questiony question. Three is for really, really, REALLY questiony questions.
What does two question marks mean when texting?
If double question marks are uses it is to emphasise something in return, usually from the shock of the previous thing said. For example, if I said: ‘My dog just died’ (sad, but used for example…) Someone may reply. ‘Really??’
How do you do smart punctuation on iPhone?
How to use Auto-Correction and predictive text on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- Open the Settings app.
- Tap General > Keyboard.
- Turn on Auto-Correction. By default, Auto-Correction is on.