simple question about question mark on linux emacs

[jonathan]

I ssh into a fedora 3 box with my OS X box. When I start emacs and  
type a "?", it puts it into the bottom and waits for a command.  I  
just want to it to put a question mark. Is this a problem with what  
my powerbook is sending or with the remote machine? It would seem to  
be former because emacs works fine on my powerbook. How do I fix this?

thanks,

jonathan