Apostrophes/Quotes appearing as '?'

I regularly export and import text data into and out of Excel, Word and Access. Lately a good deal of the text I have been exporting to be posted on websites shows up with characters (apostrophes and quotation marks) being displayed as '?'s. Any ...

Message posted on the May 10th, 2010 - 9:03 PM ET

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Apostrophes appearing as ?

I have been sending an Access database file to a third party service to upload to various websites including Amazon. Many of the the apostrophes in text in the file are not translating correctly. I was guessing this might be an ASCII character ...

Message posted on the April 15th, 2010 - 3:45 PM ET

Bug#568636: abiword: pasting text from another program results in wrong apostrophes '

Package: abiword Severity: normal after pasting text from another program results in wrong apostrophes ' so quit and restart displays well, but no idea of printing is ok it is a serious bug so please to be fixed Best regards abiword is nice ...

Message posted on the February 6th, 2010 - 7:20 AM ET

formating apostrophes

My editor and I use 2007 Word with Vista and the same Font. Nevertheless, oftentimes, he gets the apostrophes as straight signs while I have them as curly. We need to maintain the same formatting for final printing. Any ideas?

Message posted on the October 20th, 2009 - 10:21 AM ET

Quote Marks & Apostrophes in Messages

Messages I receive from certain sources often have weird symbols in place of the quotation marks or apostrophes the writer intended. Is there something I can do about this? I notice that the same message on a different computer will have the ...

Message posted on the April 26th, 2009 - 12:23 PM ET

colons, apostrophes and quotation marks

I read emails from Investors Daily Edge. However all colons, quotation marks and apostrophes are rendered as garbage, making it almost impossible to read. colon = â?¦ quotation marks = â?o and â?

Message posted on the April 9th, 2009 - 12:24 AM ET

Dealing with Apostrophes in my data -- Access 2007 VBA

I have some programming that includes using a contact's name which sometimes includes an apostrophe, like O'Keefe, O'Reilly, etc. This is causing me grief when it crashes otherwise perfect coding. How can I deal with this issue?

Message posted on the February 10th, 2010 - 8:17 PM ET

SQL strings with quotation marks or apostrophes trouble!

I'm trying to write an SQL statement where one or more field entries include strings with quotations mark. for instance: 20" Tube The quotation mark translates to "inches", and needs to be stored in the field. or in another case ...

Message posted on the December 10th, 2009 - 8:37 PM ET

Bug#557964: dctrl-tools: Man page examples use quotes instead of apostrophes and backticks

Package: dctrl-tools Version: 2.13.1 Severity: minor Hi, Subject says it all, but let me provide two examples from the EXAMPLES section: % grep-status -P -e ’apt|dpkg’ should read % grep-status -P -e 'apt|dpkg' and % ...

Message posted on the November 25th, 2009 - 10:40 AM ET

Apostrophes and Quotation marks in Word - AGAIN!

I cannot type an apostrophe or quotation mark in Word 2007 (operating on updated Vista) without typing a character or space following it. This is extremely frustrating. I have checked lots of forums and the same advice is given - change your ...

Message posted on the October 31st, 2009 - 10:42 PM ET

Apostrophes problem!

Hello All I have a function that returns a string value 'errorfield' (as well as some other values), which can be over 1000 characters long. After the function runs, this works fine: DoCmd.RunSQL "INSERT into employee_submissions ...

Message posted on the September 15th, 2009 - 5:41 AM ET