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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWHY will no apostrophes appear in my subject lines?
Do others have this problem? Im a grammar nerd and this is killing me by degrees. It just began recently.
Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,489 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,489 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)I'm a bit of a grammar nazi myself. I think it might have to do with either your browser or your input device. I think some phones have that problem, too. I've seen it discussed here before.
I post from my home PC on Chrome and don't have the problem. At least to the extent that I can blame my equipment.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Im bad about posting while waiting for things so am often not at home.
I could scream...
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Thought Id just made a typo, but tried to edit it a couple times and it wouldnt print the apostrophe.
MineralMan
(146,333 posts)a special character that DU no longer supports in subject lines. It works fine with standard keyboard apostrophes, as you see in my subject line.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)MineralMan
(146,333 posts)I guarantee that the normal low-ASCII code apostrophe is appearing just fine in subject lines.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)Response to MineralMan (Reply #3)
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TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts).
It might have to do with the ASCII code page that's being used here, versus the Unicode on most sites.
Oh, there was some HTML lockdown that occurred a while ago. I think it started then.
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nolabear
(41,991 posts)Note: I tried on this post.
MineralMan
(146,333 posts)they've filtered a number of unicode characters out for rendition in post subject lines.
Some mobile devices automatically substitute the unicode single quote mark when you enter text.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)Subject should read... Apostrophe and the inch character ' are different characters...
Left quote
Right quote
Single left quote
Single right quote (this is a proper apostrophe)
Inch character " (corrected)
Foot character ' (corrected)
Sometime auto correct will replace the inch and foot characters with typographer's quote characters.
What do you see in this post? It may depend on your device OS.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)targetpractice
(4,919 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)targetpractice
(4,919 posts)targetpractice
(4,919 posts)I thought that was happening when I was in elementary and grammar school.
Motley13
(3,867 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,199 posts)I think the last update threw DU off.
JDC
(10,135 posts)It didnt used to. I noticed it a couple of months ago
yardwork
(61,712 posts)JDC
(10,135 posts)yardwork
(61,712 posts)I had that problem and I went into the settings on my iPhone and turned off some kind of smart grammar or something. It worked.
klook
(12,170 posts)Just made this adjustment. Yep, it works.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Related to anti hacking software post election?
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Im just not using them in my subject lines at all.
sl8
(13,901 posts)kimbutgar
(21,210 posts)Work. I usually write comments from my IPad so maybe thats the problem.
Skittles
(153,199 posts)no special characters in the subject line
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)I just dont want y'all to think Im ignorant. 😄