I get a question mark instead of a hyphen

This has happened since i've joined this site. When i write a review the hyphens always turn into question marks. Is this something inherent in the site or is it something incompatible with my computer? I use ubuntu linux not windows or a mac. This isn't earth-shattering but it is annoying so if anyone knows anything about this i'd appreciate a little feedback :) Thx

That happens to me a bit when I'm adding an album or a review that has a lot of characters not in the English alphabet (accents, umlauts, etc) - sometimes those won't translate properly.  I have to either copy such characters from a web page or summon them from my "symbols" menu in Microsoft Word ("symbols"? they make it seem like any non-Anglo language is some crazy alien thing), and I often have to go back and edit the review/album to just insert the basic Anglo character, thereby just making me look ignorant rather than deranged.

The moon is probably responsible somehow, as you say.

It's because the PA main site's text encoding system does't include the em dash (the long dash that Word autocorrects the hyphen (-) to). When you're writing a review in Word, be conscious to change the em dashes back to hyphens, and the question marks won't show up.

So it's settled. The moon is responsible and we must blow it up before any other shenanigans occur. I say we post billboards for all the human race has to offer like Burger King, plastic rings that strangle wildlife, creationalism. All that good stuff! Thanks for the response. I am only minorly computer literate. I spend too much time listening to music to care about these things too much

Or use plain text format to write your reviews, problem solved

aapatsos wrote: Or use plain text format to write your reviews, problem solved

I have tried not copying and simply writing it from scratch on the site and it still happens. That is why i'm here inquiring about this. I have tried every trick i know to get around this and it happens every time

aapatsos wrote: ^ that never happens to me. Either when I write directly here or transfer from a "Notepad" text, the review appears ok. Maybe try a different browser or keyboard settings? Sorry I can't help more

Hey, thanks for responding to this totally irrelevant annoyance in the big scheme of things. It must be an incompatibility of some sort with computers, operating systems, whatever. Of course the moon is totally to blame and we can nuke it to pay for this indignancy but please don't waste any more time on this as there are more important things to tend to on this site

siLLy puPPy wrote: So it's settled. The moon is responsible and we must blow it up before any other shenanigans occur.

Just call on Gru !!

Tom Ozric wrote: siLLy puPPy wrote: So it's settled. The moon is responsible and we must blow it up before any other shenanigans occur. Just call on Gru !!

The band here on PA with their outstanding album Cosmogenesis? Or the character from the movie Despicable Me? Maybe they should team up and quash these threat to our universe

siLLy puPPy wrote: BTW i am noticing that PA is a bit outdated when compared to MMA or JMA.

I think it’s a deliberate design from the site owner, so that you know then you come here, that the Music on PA is totally outdated compared to that of MMA and JMA………no sorry, sometimes I just get those crazy thoughts coming, can't help myself.