When adding a link list summary view with a layout direction of right
to left, Sharepoint will take any punctuation mark off the end of the
link description and move it to the front so that you might get
something like this:

? Why Doesn't SharePoint Get This Right *

With the little yellow square box sitting where the * is.

I've described the behavior in more detail here:

http://tinyurl.com/cseq9

what do we do?