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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)

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

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.

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.

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?

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


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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.

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>

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]

"GanBei";p="1554" wrote: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.

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>';

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.

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

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

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...