Originally Posted by
MiniLaura
Actually, whoever created the list must have copied and pasted it from somewhere else (perhaps a Word document?) and the original list had characters that were not recognized by this bulletin board. Those characters were replaced by question marks. For example, "haven't" and "don't" have their apostrophes replaced by question marks. I'll bet that these apostrophes were the "smart" (i.e. curved) apostrophes used in Word.
But yes, in some cases the question marks are "real" and indicated some uncertainty in information. The trick is to figure out which are real and which are not.