why don't ? signs work??

maybe this doesn't have anything to do with your script or web page it's just a
setting on your mac that's making it display wrong. i presume you're using
apple's mail program. if so change your text encoding in that program.

message > text encoding > unicode (UTF-8)

mine works fine on automatic but maybe it's something to do with regional
settings, if i change my text encoding to anything that starts in western i get
exactly the same problem ??.