Title: Posts with ? marks added Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Posts with ? marks added * [ndmpmesritz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndmpmesritz/) * (@ndmpmesritz) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/) * I’m sure that there’s been others with this problem, but I can’t seem to find them. I apologize if there’s a quick answer, but I went through pages 1 through 10 manually and did a search.. * In any case, my blog posts seem to be showing up with random ?? in the body where I never wrote them and I’m trying to figure out what may be causing this. I saw somewhere that there was a suggestion to check “Encoding for pages and feeds:” and make sure that it was set to UTF-8. It is. * Any other assistance would be appreciated. Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * [Ryan Fitzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanfitzer/) * (@ryanfitzer) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-425736) * Very weird. Not sure where to start on that one. Have you altered anything recently? * Thread Starter [ndmpmesritz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndmpmesritz/) * (@ndmpmesritz) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-425861) * I can’t think of anything. The only thing that I believe happened may have been an upgrade to MySQL from 1.8 to 2.0 in version. * [Ryan Fitzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanfitzer/) * (@ryanfitzer) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-425868) * Not very familiar with MySQL but maybe someone else is. Anyone…? * Thread Starter [ndmpmesritz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndmpmesritz/) * (@ndmpmesritz) * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-426104) * Anyone? * [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/) * (@samboll) * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-426105) * If you’re running WP 2.0.3, you may want to apply this: [http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/wordpress-203-tuneup/](http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/wordpress-203-tuneup/) * Thread Starter [ndmpmesritz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndmpmesritz/) * (@ndmpmesritz) * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-426122) * I’m running 2.0.4 as of this morning. Its still doing it — it appears that it definately does it when you edit the timestamp to post into the future. * Thread Starter [ndmpmesritz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndmpmesritz/) * (@ndmpmesritz) * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-426148) * My latest post has had this problem again. Does anyone have any other suggestions? We’re running the latest version of MySQL, PHP and WordPress. * Thanks, Philippe [http://blog.newdirectioninc.com](http://blog.newdirectioninc.com) * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-426149) * In general, this is a “mis-conjunction” in the charset your blog uses as opposed to the charset you’re using when you post. This can happen if you use something funky when compositing outside the blog interface, such as using ANYTHING with the program name “Microsoft” (wordpad, word, notepad) to composit offline, then upload to your blog. * If you MUST composit offline, download a truly vanilla editor such as notepad2 from [http://www.flos-freeware.ch](http://www.flos-freeware.ch) which will throw NOTHING extraneous into your text. Besides the obvious, notepad2 allows you to edit “natively” vbscript, js, java, php, etc. * Thread Starter [ndmpmesritz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndmpmesritz/) * (@ndmpmesritz) * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-426151) * I’m composing in the wordpress WYSWYG editor, at least 90% of the time. Any other ideas? * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-426152) * Nope. Don’t use the stupid thing. If you’re not copy n pasting, I don’t have any other ideas. * [Edit: I lied. Yeah, there is another possibility: it could be in one of the formatting plugins, like texturize, textile, etc. Do you have any of those?] * [yosemite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosemite/) * (@yosemite) * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-426153) * Page has 337 errors: [http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.newdirectioninc.com%2F](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.newdirectioninc.com%2F) * Suggest you address those first, probably a cascading issue. Oh, and don’t use caps for xhtml. * Thread Starter [ndmpmesritz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndmpmesritz/) * (@ndmpmesritz) * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-426159) * Vkaryl — I don’t. There’s no formatting plugins at all. * Yosemite — I’ll work on them, but from the skim that I just did, most of them are caused by the editor apparently. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-426160) * Hmm. Well, I still maintain that the wysiwyg causes more problems than it solves, and if it’s the root of your magnitude of errors in the validator, that would tend to prove the statement, ain’t? * Really, you are FAR more well advised to turn it off and post using the plain html with quicktags setup. I never use anything BUT that, and I have no problems such as you experience. * [yosemite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosemite/) * (@yosemite) * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-with-marks-added/#post-426162) * _I’ll work on them, but from the skim that I just did, most of them are caused by the editor apparently._ * Look closer, most of them are wp-notable related; Take a look at the ``, it contains id’s that are used over and over again. 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