Full Stop/Period turned into circle

I can't enter a full stop/period into text. One day "double space bar" produced a small circle instead of ".". I cannot insert via symbol keyboard or via "double space bar". My messages look wrong and I cannot enter email addresses as can't produce the fullstop/period. Please tell me how to fix. Thank you.

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See if things have returned to good operation. Like all computing devices, BB's suffer from memory leaks and such...with a hard reboot being the best cure.
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