the mysterious question mark, seems to appear more and more on many websites, I’ve noticed, now

It is almost always because quotation marks " or an apostrophe ’ is in the listing and in a font that for some reason that is no longer recognized…or some other letter accent symbol

If I change the font to something like just plain arial or Verdana..then the ‘strange’ question mark goes away

>>>>>What causes ? in black diamond and how do I prevent it?

There is likely an encoding issue with a special character that is not recognized by the character set specified in the document. – <<<<<<

It’s not just happening on Bonanza either! I’ve noticed this in the majority of my listings in every store that I have across the web when I prepare each item for tweeting. And I don’t ever use special characters in my titles either, so it has to be the fonts in my case. I usually just delete it from the url when getting the short url. I’ve also noticed when I tweet items for others that if you DO have a special character in your title, the tweet that you get to send out will NOT have the whole title of your item in it, so be careful what you put in your titles! It’ll have all words in the title UP TO that special character…and then nothing! So if you ask a question (for example) at the beginning of your title and put a question mark in, your tweet will only have the question with no follow-up info! Or if you have an apostrophe in your title, the tweet title will only go up to that apostrophe.

I’m not expert, but it seems if you copy and paste your item description from somewhere else or from a word processing doc, the encoding others mentioned can make things wonky.

I suggest copy and past into a text editor and then copy and paste THAT into your listing. Then reformat using the text editor this site provides to add fonts, etc.

Once you find a format that works here, you can create your own bonz template from the bonz source code OR when you create a new listing, go into source code mode, and copy paste from your word doc & put directly into the source code without having to transfer to a text editor first, as code only shows up in the source code if you specifically tell it to.

Not sure if I made sense there to anyone but myself. Msg me if u have ?’s.

Check to see what font your computer is set to display. I believe that the default is Arial. If yours is set to some other font, it may not match what is being displayed, and some characters may show a question mark. Conversely if a page is set to a font you do not have, like a Christmas font, your computer will pick a font to display, which may look nothing like the author intended.