I think the reviewers keyboards are on the fritz? but maybe it?s not. I?m just not sure does anybody know? what?s going on with that? I?m so confused? Thanks?



http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=10001

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=9958

I assume you are seeing random '?'s, which gladly I'm not.

Examples from the two reviews:

by Ian Jane-

Eventually it?s decided that the group has to do something ? they can?t stay in the mall forever and even if the could, would they really want to? The world outside has gone to Hell around them. The only thing they can do is hope to escape to somewhere remote enough that the zombie plague hasn?t reached yet.



by Shannon Nutt-

This is just the beginning of the film, as the credits roll and the viewer is treated to news footage of the world falling apart (much of it actual footage) to the tune of Johnny Cash?s ?The Man Comes Around? ? which is a song about the end times and Armageddon. Music is actually a secondary character in Snyder?s film ? playing happy, cheerful elevator music like ?Don?t Worry, Be Happy? and ?You Light Up My Life? in the mall scenes that make up the majority of the movie, and giving us Disturbed?s ?Down With The Sickness? during a great rooftop montage scene at the film?s midway point

Yes.

Of the most recent seven reviews I only see this on DotD.

But I clicked on a few more reviews by Nutt and they all had that problem.

One sample for you:

This is just the beginning of the film, as the credits roll and the viewer is treated to news footage of the world falling apart (much of it actual footage) to the tune of Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around” – which is a song about the end times and Armageddon. Music is actually a secondary character in Snyder’s film – playing happy, cheerful elevator music like “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” and “You Light Up My Life” in the mall scenes that make up the majority of the movie, and giving us Disturbed’s “Down With The Sickness” during a great rooftop montage scene at the film’s midway point.

These question marks don't show up on any of the two computers I use.

I don?t see the question marks either.

I think maybe it's a browser setting issue - I cut and paste my reviews directly from MS Word - there may be some kind of conflict between the text and the way certain browsers read the text.

Word does some crazy shit. I've seen this before. My boss uses Word as his Outlook editor, because his spelling is complete suck, and Word ends up replacing the apostrophes and double quotes with grave and accute accents. The former is supported everywhere; the latter is iffy, and really shouldn't be used in a database environment IMO. Anyway, the problem generates with Word, and it doesn't end with browsers. I know VB gets tripped up on those accents too. When encountering the character, the ? is the browser's way of saying WTF.

das

P.S. An interesting test for those who see ?s would be to type the following in a DVD Talk reply box (using the left ALT and the number-pad). Depending on the keyboard, you likely have the grave accent, but not the accute accent.

ALT-0034 (double quote)
ALT-0039 (single quote)
ALT-0096 (grave accent)
ALT-0180 (accute accent)

It has the same question marks?

Do the ones above not show up when you view the quote?

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Grave and accute?

Not for me, no.

When <b>Copenhagen</b> posts it, it looks fine. When you quote him (passing through your system, back to the forum database), it's all ?-ified. It's because your system doesn't know how to handle the accents.

What browser are you using? If you're using IE, check to see what text encoding you have (View/Encoding). If it's UTF-8 (unicode) or some foreign language, it won't understand quite a bit (you most likely want Western European (Windows)). Is the Cranky-meter in my sig ?-ified for you?

das

No problems 4 me.

Yes it was UTF-8 so I changed it. Now your meter is bullets instead of question marks and all is good.

THANKS!