Getting ? after my excerpts

  • Hi,

    Yesterday I expierenced an issue on my WordPress site. After I noticed the issue, I backstepped all my files to before the problem, but the issue is still there.

    I’m assuming it’s some sort of format issue, as I am getting a few “?”s.

    The ? has replaced the “…” that usually ends my excerpts.
    It looks like this: The issue..

    Anyone have an idea, how I can fix this?

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by 55nord.
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  • Hello,

    This character is usually if a non-UTF-8 character is in a page that has been declared to be UTF-8.
    Was this text copied and pasted in from somewhere? If you delete the character in the editor and retype it in does that clear the issue?

    Do you have an example URL where this diamond is appearing?

    Thread Starter 55nord

    (@55nord)

    Hi, thanks for your reply.

    That’s what I assumed aswell, as I’ve had the problem before, when editing the code from my cPanel, but downloading the file, saving and uploading fixed this. However, this was only with special characters, like ???.

    The text was imported, but even if I make a new post, it shows up with this error.

    The site can be viewed here: https://hyttefortegnelsen.dk.linux71.unoeuro-server.com/
    (The site will load very slowly due to temp. server.)
    It’s appearing solely in the excerpts on the grid listings.

    Hello.

    A simple fix for this would be add the following code to your header.php right after the opening <head> tag.

    <meta charset="utf-8">

    Thread Starter 55nord

    (@55nord)

    Hi Liam,

    Unfortunately, that did not work. It seems it didn’t change anything.

    Hi @55nord.

    Thanks for the extra detail. Please could you paste the exact text you are putting into the panel? You mentioned that it was a ” causing the issue.

    Thread Starter 55nord

    (@55nord)

    @krisjl I’m not sure what you mean.

    The error does not show in any plain text. In those posts, where the diamond appears, it only appears in the excerpts. If I click the post and opens it, the diamond is gone and there are no issues.

    It is solely showing up and replacing the 3 dots(“…”) after an excerpt.
    In those excerpts where there is no diamond, the 3 dots are simply missing.

    You could try copying the text in a plain text editor like NotePad and then copying into WordPress.

    Thread Starter 55nord

    (@55nord)

    @gingeds

    As I wrote, the text itself is fine. Doing what you suggest changed nothing. The problem only shows, when WordPress tries to show a resume of a post, replacing the 3 dots with the diamondshaped questionmark.

    So, I just tried to make a change in the database. In wp_options, blog_charset, I changed this to Latin1 from UTF-8. This of course causes problems with local language(???), which would make funny characters.

    However, the diamonds were gone and the 3 dots back!
    How is that possible? :/

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