I noticed sometimes if I type ?what?s going on? , it will replace the apostrophe and quote marks with question marks. Only noticed that on this forum.
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I noticed sometimes if I type ?what?s going on? , it will replace the apostrophe and quote marks with question marks. Only noticed that on this forum.
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My posts look like that here also. Not usely question marks, sometimes Swedish letters. (Lol) How about ?now??
Edit, I guess it question marks now.
Nothing has changed here -- The difference is what is being used to create/send the characters...
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So basically because the forum is old, it can?t accept characters from an iPhone?
Never seen this on other forums.
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Yes. (It's a common problem with email, Word docs, ect.)
As I understand it, the iPhone may be using a character set that is not backwards compatible (ISO-8859, 1 byte, 128 characters v/s UTF-8 multi bite, ~2 billion characters). So one character may be interpreted as several, or set to a question mark (or other default) when unrecognized.
This finally bit me too. So I decided to do an experiment. The following tests are typed exactly alike using the indicated applications, then copied/pasted into this post (except #6, which is typed in directly).
--[ Begin Test ]--------------------------------------------------
1-MS Word
?‘single quoted?’
?“double quoted?”
?question mark?
2-MS Wordpad
'single quoted'
"double quoted"
?question mark?
3-MS Notepad
'single quoted'
"double quoted"
?question mark?
4-Notepad++
'single quoted'
"double quoted"
?question mark?
5-Email (Windows Live Mail Client)
'single quoted'
"double quoted'
?question mark?
6-Typed-in Directly into DMCTalk thread (this post)
'single quoted'
"double quoted"
?question mark"
--[ End of Test ]-------------------------------------------------
Notes:
- Apps are used offline, outside of DMCalk (excpet #6) on a Windows 10 based PC only (no Apple, Android, Linux products tested).
- MS Word used for longer posts, so to better organize thoughts and correct grammatical errors, while preserving spell-check utilization.
Conclusion: Don't type your post in an older version of MS Word (or equivalent), then copy/paste into a DMCTalk thread. Use one of the other applications, if needed. This is determined before posting by utilizing the "Preview Post" option. This is not a solution, but at least a temporary work around until a newer version of MS Word can be obtained.
Hope this helps.
Thomas
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Last edited by Citizen; 01-01-2023 at 09:03 AM.
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