IPad 3 substitutes question marks in place of numbers

In Calendar and other apps with numbers in headings, my iPad 3 (iOS 8) shows ?? instead. I have a 12 year old who uses it. Any ideas as to what might be causing this?

Try a reset first. Hold down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10 seconds until the Apple logo appears on the screen. Let go of the buttons and let the iPad start up.
I Really don't know why this would be happening but things that I would check would be third party keyboards in Settings>General>keyboards. if you have any third party keyboards installed, turn them off. The other thing that I would look at are widgets in the Notification Center. Pull down from the top of the screen to get to the Notification Center, tap the Edit Button and look to see if there are any widgets that you didn't enable yourself. If you see any, disable them.
I am simply trying to think of things that could cause strange conflicts and that's why I made those suggestions. It's just a hunch, that's all.

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Ipad substitutes question marks in place of numbers

In Calendar and other apps with numbers in headings, my iPad 3 (iOS 8) shows ?? instead. I have a 12 year old who uses it. Any ideas as to what might be causing this?

Try a reset first. Hold down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10 seconds until the Apple logo appears on the screen. Let go of the buttons and let the iPad start up.
I Really don't know why this would be happening but things that I would check would be third party keyboards in Settings>General>keyboards. if you have any third party keyboards installed, turn them off. The other thing that I would look at are widgets in the Notification Center. Pull down from the top of the screen to get to the Notification Center, tap the Edit Button and look to see if there are any widgets that you didn't enable yourself. If you see any, disable them.
I am simply trying to think of things that could cause strange conflicts and that's why I made those suggestions. It's just a hunch, that's all.

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Great post man!
This isssue has not been answered at all. All we have is kludgy work arounds.
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Thanks for your reply cor-el.
My posting actually included the alt code syntax, and is now rendered as the corresponding special character. I guess this isn't a surprise!
And no, it was rendered just fine. This morning when I went into the browser to see the problem, it was not mis-displaying as it had been...it had somehow changed and was behaving very nicely. That's all fine, but I'm a little bit wary of this FF browser functionality now...steady as she goes.
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On your iPad - go to Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Load Remote Images>On. Try that first.
You can also try a reset. Reset the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.
Quit the mail and all other apps. Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Quit/close open apps by double tapping the home button and the task bar will appear with all of you recent/open apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner to close the apps. Restart the iPad. Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.

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Hello,
The question mark means it can't find it where it was when you put it in the Dock.
I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11076
Use it to search your whole drive for Files & Folders, case insensitive & show invisibles...
Complete
That will show any with that word in the name at all.

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I purchased a new MacBook Pro and when transferring files iphoto did not transfer. I have a question mark in the place of the icon. My pictures are in library but can't properly access iphoto. Thank you

Sure-glad to help you. You will not lose any data by changing synching to MacBook Pro from imac. You have set up Time Machine, right? that's how you'd do your backup, so I was told, and how I do my backup on my mac. You should be able to set a password for it. Save it. Your stuff should be saved there. So if you want to make your MacBook Pro your primary computer, I suppose, back up your stuff with Time machine, turn off Time machine on the iMac, turn it on on the new MacBook Pro, select the hard drive in your Time Capsule, enter your password, and do a backup from there. It might work, and it might take a while, but it should go. As for clogging the hard drive, I can't say. Depends how much stuff you have, and the hard drive's capacity. As for moving syncing from your iMac to your macbook pro, should be the same. Your phone uses iTunes to sync and so that data should be in the cloud. You can move your iTunes Library to your new Macbook pro
you should be able to sync your phone on your new MacBook Pro. Don't know if you can move the older backups yet-maybe try someone else, anyways,
This handy article from Apple explains how
How to move your iTunes library to a new computer - Apple Support''
don't forget to de-authorize your iMac if you don't want to play purchased stuff there
and re-authorize your new macBook Pro
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I have a question mark in the place of my mail's icon and i cannot get into my email. I found my email folder in the library ,but it is not in applications. How do i get my email back ?

have a question mark in the place of my mail's icon and i cannot get into my email. I found my email folder in the library ,but it is not in applications. How do i get my email back ?

you should look in your applications folder to see if mail is still there. the dock icon is pointing to mail being in your applications folder. it has probably been moved or deleted for some reason from the app folder. do a spotlight search for your mail program. if it is still on your computer, move it back to the applications folder and when you click the question mark, it should see it is back and open. The email folder in your library shouldn't have to be touched. you need mail.app itself.

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Help! My iPhoto application disappeared and there is only a question mark in its place. I do not have the disks to restore. what do I do??

If yhou have Time Machine running on your Mac go to the Applications folder, enter Time Maching, go back till iDVD is there and restore it.
Otherwise you can contact Apple and for about $10 get replacement disks for hyour Mac. Lastly, you'll have to purchase iLife 09 and do a custom install of iDVD from it.
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Export the slideshow out of iPhoto as a QT movie file via the Export button in the lower toolbar. Select Size = Medium or Large.
Open iDVD, select a theme and drag the exported QT movie file into the open iDVD window being careful to avoid any drop zones.
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Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
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