Question Mark after pressing a button on toolbar

Very strange indeed. Any information about your CKEditor version, integration method, backend that you are using? Can you reproduce the same issue when you run the CKEditor samples from the "_samples" folder? Which toolbar button gives you this effect? Have you modified the plugin that creates this button in any way?

EDIT: This issue is caused by CKEditor being served in some poor encoding. Your servers must use UTF-8 at least for ckeditor.js.

If this is the case, I am afraid you've got some debugging to do as it is quite clear that it's your customizations that created the mess Good luck with that and do post your solution to the problem once you find it!

I experienced this problem also and discovered that using YUI compressor to minify my file corrupted it. If you are using a compression tool to minify your JavaScript, try deploying it without doing the minification.

I have the same problem. Did you find the solution?

I am getting ? inserted in text when pressing return key or inserting images in chrome and safari. Not in IE or Firefox.

I am using version 4.1 and was able to recreate using the CKEditor inline sample under chrome.

../ckeditor/samples/inlineall.html

 

I checked the CKEditor website inline demo and it doesn't have this problem. So I downloaded and installed version 4.2 on my dev. laptop and my server. They both still get the ?-mark inserted into text when press thr return key or any toolbar keys.

What could be the difference in CKEditor website install and mine?

HELP!

Never mind, it now works!

Months ago I had applied the following fix so that the "Rich Text Editor, editor#" hover title would not display.

By removing the fix, Chrome stop inserting ?-marks.

The fix was: In ckeditor.js search for the string: a.changeAttr("title",d), then set it to an empty string: a.changeAttr("title",'');

Hope this helps.

 

Thanks, but is don't solve this problem.

Are you getting ?-marks or other characters?

I'm no longer have the ?-mark issue with version 4.2, but  now when I press the Enter key these characters are inserted:  â€‹

You don't see them in the editor, but if you email the contents of the editor, they show up in the email.

Sure seems like a bug!

Hi

I was having same issue with ckeditor. I have fixed issue by replacing special character with empty string. 

How I solved the issue is as follow:

1. I beautified the ckeditor minified file using jsbeautifier.org

2. after beautified file, I found the function where hrml is parsed. Below is the function. (search for "htmlParser.text.prototype" in your file)

a.htmlParser.text.prototype = {
            type: 3,
            writeHtml: function(l, m) {
                var n = this.value;
                if (m && !(n = m.onText(n, this))) return;
                l.text(n);
            }
        };

3. I have replaced the line from above function

                var n = this.value;

with

var n = this.value.replace(/[^(\x20-\x7F)]*/g, '');

This line replaces the special character with empty. This solved my issue.

Hope this save somebodies time.

Note: To keep file miinified, search for the exact code without beatifying file and add your code.

This might work on other versions too. 

Thanks all

All the issues described in this thread are caused by your servers using incorrect encoding. CKEditor must be served in UTF-8.