Apostrophes changing to asterisks

**GunLawyer001** · October 23rd, 2023, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by Carson

. . . Your font is tiny.

Them's fightin' words, in Silicon Valley.

**carrguy1** · October 24th, 2023, 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by knight0334

I can assure you that it isn't the website, it is your device's ability to translate text correctly and send it.

These iPhones, Android phones, iPads, and tablets use a fucking calculator processor as a CPU. And the script kiddies punching out the code for the software have a 9th degree blackbelt in stupidity.

So, why does it display apostrophes ok if I preview the post before posting it but shows asterisks if I just post without previewing? And why didn’t it do it at all a few years ago before the upgrade. And why doesn’t it happen on any other forum site or any non-forum site for that matter? I k ow I might sound argumentative but I don’t mean to be. Just asking questions.

I haven’t cared about it much in a long time but I guess I just saw one too many asterisks the other day and I figured I’d ask. Seems like it happens to others on similar devices but does it happen to everyone on an iPhone or android? Because if it doesn’t happen to everyone using these devices and only happens to some then that doesn’t make sense. If it’s a problem with the device’s processor and there are others using the same processors then I’d think it should happen to everyone using one of those processors.

**RockIsland** · October 24th, 2023, 03:51 AM

Turn off Smart Punctuation in your keyboard settings.

**Cloud** · October 24th, 2023, 05:31 AM

I thought it was a post about Frank Zappa "the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe."

**JAKIII** · October 24th, 2023, 06:17 AM

free knows how to fix it in Settings (I forget).

I message him every time I get a new device and he sends me the steps. Like Rock said^^^.

**Noah_Zark** · October 24th, 2023, 07:45 AM

The bigger issue is using apostrophe's to make possessive's into plural's.

It hurt to type that.

Noah

**Walleye Hunter** · October 24th, 2023, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by Noah_Zark

The bigger issue is using apostrophe's to make possessive's into plural's.

It hurt to type that.

Noah

Everyone know's that men using grammar is an oxy-moron.

**carrguy1** · October 24th, 2023, 11:28 PM

I'll give the smart punctuation setting a try.

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**RockIsland** · October 25th, 2023, 07:11 AM

Congratulations!

**free** · March 2nd, 2024, 10:26 PM

It is because the database for this website doesn't use modern Unicode character encoding for the tables used to store messages.

The only permanent fix is to update the database to use that encoding.

You can avoid it by turning off smart punctuation on your device as previously noted.

However, if you copy/paste from an article that uses smart punctuation, you'll get the asterisks and such because you've pasted in Unicode from a website, not using characters actually generated on your device.