'?' Character in Dates in Sequoia

Google informed me this is the result of Language & Region settings, but they’re all correct.
12:36:27 PM - visually this looks “normal”, but is I save this to a text file and open in BBEdit, the “space” between the ‘7’ and ‘P’ shows as a read dot. And the script complains when trying to do math on that date that "Can’t get date “12:46:22?PM”. Any other ideas on what causes this. I replaced a system running Monterey and lots of scripting with an M4 Mini & Sequoia, that’s when it started doing this.

SORRY, turns out the ‘?’ wasn’t the problem. Am curious what that actual character is though. Red dot in BBdit…