Thanks but ? Is a safe character and not in the list of unsafe. 

Wikipedia uses them just fine. 

Thinking it is Nginx and the host config

Tom
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On Jan 8, 2013, at 5:44 PM, Bri <d...@rlyehable.com> wrote:

> It is likely the inclusion of the special character '?' in the URL.
> 
> Some characters are "unsafe" in a URL (meaning that they may have 
> unpredictable results).
> See http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm#whatwhy
> 
> -Brian
> 
> On 1/8/2013 9:11 AM, Tom wrote:
>> I'm trying to figure out why one of my wikis is having problems with page 
>> titles which include the ? character in page titles.
>> 
>> They work just fine on my localhost but when uploaded they will not appear 
>> correctly.  All the settings appear to be the same in the php.ini file. On 
>> the hosted server even when ? is end of a title it still will not show even 
>> though the URL indicates it should be there with the %3F.
>> 
>> I'm starting to wonder if the host is running URL requests through some type 
>> of sanitizer and blocking characters.
>> 
>> Thoughts appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Tom
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