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Annoying autocorrect: B_4 -> before




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dormcat
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:25 pm Reply with quote
Please ignore underbars between "B" and "4".

When the URL is written in Unicode, B_4 or %B_4 appear quite often in the URL, but the system autocorrects B_4 into "before," creating broken links and distorting messages. Please remove this function, as it brings more annoyances and frustrations than benefits.


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Keonyn
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:29 pm Reply with quote
Hehe, nice, I see what you mean. When I am on the main forum page and this is in the "last post" column it shows as "B4 -> before" in the title. When I enter the forum and view the post however it's "before -> before" but as I'm typing this reply it's back to "B4" again, heh. Apparently it doesn't make corrections everywhere.
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dormcat
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:34 pm Reply with quote
Keonyn wrote:
Apparently it doesn't make corrections everywhere.

It does: not to the original but to all displayed text, so you can see the original message while replying, but whenever the string B_4 is displayed it becomes "before."
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:08 pm Reply with quote
I have another one.

Please ignore all underbars between letters.

Can't use superscript because auto correct changes <s_u_p>th</s_u_p> -----> th
_________________________________________________^ Used to change it to "what's up"


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:14 pm Reply with quote
I've removed the "sup" filter, and I've also added sup to the list of allowed HTML since it wasn't allowed previously.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:40 pm Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:28 pm Reply with quote
tempest wrote:
I've removed the "sup" filter

Why is "B4" so important then?

*got around it by inserting blank BBCode tags.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:55 pm Reply with quote
dormcat wrote:
tempest wrote:
I've removed the "sup" filter

Why is "B4" so important then?


Just to annoy you actually :-p

actually, I assumed it had been previously taken care of...
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:31 pm Reply with quote
Aren't you glad that "wazzaaap?" isn't a valid HTML command?

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