Formatting Issue on confluence page

rmuller123

Hi there, 

I'm trying to transfer documentation from an old site to a new confluence page. Basically just copying over all text. When I do this and I am in the edit mode, everything looks perfect but as soon as I leave edit mode and publish my changes I see additional '???' or '??' or '?' added to the text. It is randomly applied and when looking at the html code I don't see anything distinctly different. 

Could someone please help me understand why '???' is automatically being added in and how to remove it?

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Ed Gaile _Atlanta_ GA_

Usually that means some sort of non standard characters or collation issue.  You might want to eyeball this - https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/jira-application-internationalisation-and-encoding-troubleshooting-203394762.html

or also try and throw the information into a text editor and see if you find any special characters.