? marks on my board

[DaveSmooth]

Heres another oldie but goodie. I have question marks appearing next to some icons on my site. This seemed to have happened quite a while back, they weren't there one day, and then the next they were. My server has not done anything either. So, anybody else run across this and come up with a fix for it?

Something I'm considering:

Dump IM and reinstall - anybody know the challenges involved with this? Will I lose every thing? (thats already happened once and really upset site users)

[Helter]

do you have a link to your site? Unless youve modded the heck out of it, it will probably be much easier to fix it than reinstall it

[DaveSmooth]

Thanks Helter. Yes, my site is here:

http://www.deepprogressions.com

I haven't added any mods at all, only what came with IM. They appear in posts down by the user info, i.e. - profile, buddy, pm, email...etc. Of course, you have to register to see that. Also on the footer by Security.

[Jason Sanborn]

I've seen that as well. I believe it has something to do with page encoding, although I haven't figured out what specific value has to be changed within the TPL file.

[Okki]

Am i blind, or did you fix it?

I don't see any ? , that was not supposed to be there, it think,
where should i see them exactly?

[Helter]

can you use your ftp client and dl your current fisubice/overall_footer.tpl and post it here?


[flash=,:364zzdjo]http://integrmod.com/misc/marks.jpg[/flash:364zzdjo]

[IW4]

Well, if they're in the contact options, I suppose one would have to register to see those. Can you post a screenshot? Also, which OS are you using? Your site's coming up as encoded in Unicode; if you're using something like Win9x that doesn't have full Unicode support, that might be why you're getting all those ?s.

Try going [url=http]here[/url] as a test. If you don't get most of the top ones to show (down through the syriac crosses), that's probably your issue.

[DaveSmooth]

Thanks for the quick replies. IW4..do you mean the platform my server is on? Linux. Me? WinXP Pro...but also seen it on Mac OS9 and X, Win2K.

overall_footer.tpl is here:

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{PORTAL_TAIL}           <td><img></td>         </tr>         <tr>           <td>           <div>           <BEGIN>           <table>             <tr>               <td>{BANNER_17_IMG}</td>             </tr>           </table>           <END><br>{COOKIES_LINK}<br><br>{ADMIN_LINK}</div><We>           </td>         </tr>       </table>     </td>   </tr></table><br><div>     {PROTECTED}{BLOCKED}<br>     Powered by <a>IntegraMOD</a>{INTEGRAMOD_VERSION}  2004, 2005 The Integramod Group {TRANSLATION_INFO}<br>     [ Forum powered by <a>phpBB</a>{PHPBB_VERSION}  2001, 2005 phpBB Group :: <a>FI Theme</a> :: {S_TIMEZONE} ]</div>  <a></a>{DEBUG_STATS}  <Start><Banners><table>   <tr>     <td>      <table>                 <BEGIN>         <tr><td><div>{BANNER_7_IMG}</div></td></tr>                 <END>                 <BEGIN>         <tr><td><div>{BANNER_8_IMG}</div></td></tr>                 <END>     </table>     </td>     <td>      <table>                 <BEGIN>         <tr><td><div>{BANNER_9_IMG}</div></td></tr>                 <END>                 <BEGIN>         <tr><td><div>{BANNER_10_IMG}</div></td></tr>                 <END>     </table>     </td>     <td>      <table>                 <BEGIN>         <tr><td><div>{BANNER_11_IMG}</div></td></tr>                 <END>                 <BEGIN>         <tr><td><div>{BANNER_12_IMG}</div></td></tr>                 <END>     </table>     </td>   </tr></table><End><End></body></html>

[GanBei]

Try opening up your proficp/def/def_usermaps.php

search for 'PHPBB.viewtopic.buttons' => array(

then replace all blank spaces with after the above search section

For example:
[code]FIND]

[DaveSmooth]

Try opening up your proficp/def/def_usermaps.php

search for 'PHPBB.viewtopic.buttons' => array(

then replace all blank spaces with after the above search section

Thanks!! That fixed the ones in the posts, but still haven't figured out on the footer.

[GanBei]

open & replace your overall_footer.tpl with the revised one below:

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{PORTAL_TAIL}           <td><img></td>         </tr>         <tr>           <td>           <div>           <BEGIN>           <table>             <tr>               <td>{BANNER_17_IMG}</td>             </tr>           </table>           <END> <br>{COOKIES_LINK}<br><br>{ADMIN_LINK}</div> <We>           </td>         </tr>       </table>     </td>   </tr> </table> <br> <div>    {PROTECTED}{BLOCKED}<br>    Powered by <a>IntegraMOD</a>{INTEGRAMOD_VERSION} 2004, 2005 The Integramod Group {TRANSLATION_INFO}<br>    [ Forum powered by <a>phpBB</a>{PHPBB_VERSION} 2001, 2005 phpBB Group :: <a>FI Theme</a> :: {S_TIMEZONE} ] </div>  <a></a> {DEBUG_STATS}  <Start> <Banners> <table>   <tr>     <td>     <table>                 <BEGIN>       <tr><td><div>{BANNER_7_IMG}</div></td></tr>                 <END>                 <BEGIN>       <tr><td><div>{BANNER_8_IMG}</div></td></tr>                 <END>    </table>     </td>     <td>     <table>                 <BEGIN>       <tr><td><div>{BANNER_9_IMG}</div></td></tr>                 <END>                 <BEGIN>       <tr><td><div>{BANNER_10_IMG}</div></td></tr>                 <END>    </table>     </td>     <td>     <table>                 <BEGIN>       <tr><td><div>{BANNER_11_IMG}</div></td></tr>                 <END>                 <BEGIN>       <tr><td><div>{BANNER_12_IMG}</div></td></tr>                 <END>    </table>     </td>   </tr> </table> <End> <End> </body> </html>

Now perform the following edits:

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OPEN] =  REPLACE WITH:  $lang['PS_blocked_line2'] = '<a>Protected</a> by phpBB Security &copy; <a>phpBB-Amod</a>';

[DaveSmooth]

OK...will give it a shot. When I can login to my site again (see my other post about that in this forum),

Thanks for all the help so far.

[Michaelo]

I note they appear where the copyright symbol should beà¢Ãƒ ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚ ¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚ ¦ Do they appear anywhere else? If they do can you point them out? Often if a font does not contain a symbol it is replaced the missing symbol with a question mark (?).
Mike

[DaveSmooth]

Thanks GanBei...I finally had a chance to do that and it worked like a charm. Awesome. Now, I'm finding those same ? marks in PM's, where would I go to change that? I'm assuming the fix would be just like what I did to the def_usermaps.php

[Dragonsys]

I have been having this problem for months, and have yet to figure out every place to fix them.

I even have them in my "Did you KNow" block, and it's just plain ASCII...