The bug report thread.

A place to talk about all things forever
Post Reply
User avatar
McNevin
Post Apocalyptic
Posts: 2802
Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 12:39 pm
Location: Lat: 47.6062095, long: -122.3320708
Contact:

The bug report thread.

Post by McNevin »

Maybe we should list all the bugs we find here?

Seems like there is an issue with Safari iOS and the apostrophe.

I’m thinking I’ve narrowed it down to that at least “I think” so.

It’s inserting smart / typographers / curly quotes instead of straight quotes

Chrome for iOS too...
45B1D7E5-D885-4B64-8917-2A6DAD590EEB.jpeg
45B1D7E5-D885-4B64-8917-2A6DAD590EEB.jpeg (267.9 KiB) Viewed 49257 times
Last edited by McNevin on Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Image

User avatar
enderzero
Site Admin
Posts: 3442
Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:40 am
Location: Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA
Contact:

Re: The bug report thread.

Post by enderzero »

Latest Chrome on Windows shows crazy encoding on that character. ’

Also on the long double hyphen thing: —

User avatar
McNevin
Post Apocalyptic
Posts: 2802
Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 12:39 pm
Location: Lat: 47.6062095, long: -122.3320708
Contact:

Re: The bug report thread.

Post by McNevin »

I've "fixed" the problem. I've disabled iOS "Smart Punctuation"
Image

User avatar
enderzero
Site Admin
Posts: 3442
Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:40 am
Location: Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA
Contact:

Re: The bug report thread.

Post by enderzero »

"Smart"

User avatar
McNevin
Post Apocalyptic
Posts: 2802
Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 12:39 pm
Location: Lat: 47.6062095, long: -122.3320708
Contact:

Re: The bug report thread.

Post by McNevin »

McNevin wrote:
Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:35 pm
I've "fixed" the problem. I've disabled iOS "Smart Punctuation"
I think I found a new bug, apparently these giant quotes are also "smart punctuation" :lol:

McNevin wrote: ↑
Image

User avatar
enderzero
Site Admin
Posts: 3442
Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:40 am
Location: Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA
Contact:

Re: The bug report thread.

Post by enderzero »

Testing

Chrome on Win 10
Apostrophe: '
Quotes: " "
Double dash: --

MS Word 365 auto corrected copy+paste
Apostrophe: ‘
Quotes: “ ”
Double dash: –

User avatar
enderzero
Site Admin
Posts: 3442
Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:40 am
Location: Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA
Contact:

Re: The bug report thread.

Post by enderzero »

Chrome on iOS

Apostrophe: ’
Quotes: “ ”
Double dash: —

User avatar
enderzero
Site Admin
Posts: 3442
Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:40 am
Location: Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA
Contact:

Re: The bug report thread.

Post by enderzero »

Chrome on Android

Apostrophe: '
Quotes: " "
Double dash: --

User avatar
enderzero
Site Admin
Posts: 3442
Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:40 am
Location: Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA
Contact:

Re: The bug report thread.

Post by enderzero »

Open smart double quote (U+201C): “
Close smart double quote (U+201D): ”
Open smart single quote (U+2018): ‘
Apostrophe/Close smart single quote (U+2019): ’
Double dash (U+2013): –

User avatar
enderzero
Site Admin
Posts: 3442
Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:40 am
Location: Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA
Contact:

Re: The bug report thread.

Post by enderzero »

Open smart double quote (U+201C): “
Close smart double quote (U+201D): ”
Open smart single quote (U+2018): ‘
Apostrophe/Close smart single quote (U+2019): ’
Double dash (U+2013): –

Post Reply