Quotation Marks display as boxes

I need to figure out why in some instance quotation marks
display as boxes.
This may also be a ColdFusion question but I'll start here:
I have a site that displays articles from a coldfusion
database. The articles display fine. There is no css or font tag
applied to the text (so basically displaying default fonts).
Now, I gave the page a new name and surrounded the code with
formatting css. All quotation marks display as square box. I
thought it may depend on the font that I chose (Ariel). So I
removed the css style sheet for a moment but the quotation marks
still show as box. Since I have the same code to pull the data,
same browser, same computer, this is puzzling.
Any idea what is causing this?
Thanks.

Are the quotes 'straight' quotes, or 'curly' quotes? Although
both straight
and curly quotes are special characters (" and
“ respectively) a
' " ' (i.e. straight quote) will usually appear as a straight
quote when put
directly in the code, but I have never had curly quotes
appear correctly. I
guess this is because quotes are used within attributes and
so on in regular
HTML.
If this isn't your problem then someone else will answer
better than I
have...
Regards,
Bruce
"weblinkstudio" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:gnv4mg$82f$[email protected]..
>I need to figure out why in some instance quotation marks
display as boxes.
> This may also be a ColdFusion question but I'll start
here:
>
> I have a site that displays articles from a coldfusion
database. The
> articles
> display fine. There is no css or font tag applied to the
text (so
> basically
> displaying default fonts).
>
> Now, I gave the page a new name and surrounded the code
with formatting
> css.
> All quotation marks display as square box. I thought it
may depend on the
> font
> that I chose (Ariel). So I removed the css style sheet
for a moment but
> the
> quotation marks still show as box. Since I have the same
code to pull the
> data,
> same browser, same computer, this is puzzling.
> Any idea what is causing this?
> Thanks.
>

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