I am trying to: Display a custom field, a space, then another custom field (single line text fields) in a View. The spaces appear as question marks on the front end.
Link to a page where the issue can be seen: hidden link
I expected to see: Author Jane Doe, Author 2 John Smith, Author 3 Fred Meyer
Please do not ask me to go through the process of checking for theme/plugin conflicts. This is a Toolset issue, and I've seen several other posts on the forums about this same issue, but none with a resolution that's publicly viewable.
I had a similar issue myself this morning, and when the problem with the ? appearing occurred I went back to edit the Fields and Text block generating that content and deleted then re-inserted the offending space.
I just tried the same on your site and that worked, if you would like to verify. I'll try and catch the problem on one of my sites again so that I can share it with the developers so that they can inspect the block to determine why it is happening.
As an aside, when I looked at your site, I found the set up for the custom archive you created rather strange.
When you create a custom archive you can edit it with the Block editor, very much like a View.
With archives, having determined that it is an archive from the URL, WordPress generates a query for the posts that should be displayed. When you customise the archive, you are customising that query (and specifying what should be output for the resulting posts).
By contrast, a View generates its own query, and then outputs what you specify for the resulting posts.
In your case, you have made a custom archive, which you've inserted a Content Template into, and that Content Template contains a View, to query the same posts which the archive already queries. So it is redundant. Unless you have a good reason to create a View and display it via a custom archive, you can just design the custom archive in exactly the same way as your View.
I would recommend you discard that View and the Content Template it is located in, and set up the design directly in the custom archive you have already created.
Thank you for pointing out the bloated way I had set up archives. I usually do this sort of thing with code, but I'm using Toolset for quick job and I guess I over thought things. I don't really understand what Views would be used for now. I've followed your suggestion and refactored the way archives are set up, and the whole thing seems less buggy.
As for the intermittent question marks, please do send that along to developers. It's quite a pain as it randomly keeps occurring.
