On Sunday 01 September 2002 01:52, koyaanisqatsi@nupedia.com wrote:
The boxes/question marks are almost always a result of pasting in text from Microsoft Word or some other program that uses "fancy" quotation marks etc. I always assume it to be the result of a copyright violation and google-test it (which I'll go do now). That would explain all three of your questions below--where they come from, why the contributor doesn't see them, and why they don't display.
That answers one question: how they write boxes. It doesn't answer how to explain to them how to get rid of the boxes, or how the boxes turned into question marks.
BTW, I tried googling for various terms on that page and didn't find it.
phma