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Oh that's interesting. I assumed people copy/pasted titles when they submit!
by cmg 4y ago
Oh that's interesting. I assumed people copy/pasted titles when they submit!
- hombre_fatal 4y agomacOS has ellipsis autocorrection, for example. I've had it turned off forever but perhaps it applies to <input type="text"> boxes like in the submission form.
- freedomben 4y agoI wondered that too for a while as well. I then had two people on my team, one on windows and one on macos, and we discovered that macos (or something on the computer) was converting those automatically. macos (or some application(s) on macos) also seems to use a unicode version of double quotes " instead of the standard ascii one. I spent a ridiculous amount of time debugging a line in a shell script that had the unicode quotes instead of "normal" ones and broke in ways that were horrible to figure out. Eventually I discovered that he had composed the line in Slack and pasted it in. Definitely something to watch out for!
- david_allison 4y agoI've had the same problem with contributors corrupting JSON. For reference: TextEdit - Preferences - Disable 'Smart Quotes' and 'Smart Dashes'
- hombre_fatal 4y agoYou can do it at the OS level with Preferences -> Keyboard -> Text tab -> Uncheck "Use smart quotes and dashes".
- david_allison 4y agoThank you! Will let them know if this happens again
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoThe quote problem has been a long standing issue since before Unicode became the dominant encoding. You will often see older web pages with mojibake caused by MacRoman encoding of smart quotes.
- mst 4y agoWe also used to have fun with MacOS' perldoc command rendering things cleverly and breaking copy-paste out of the documentation - this resulted in the "hilarious" code here: https://metacpan.org/release/HAARG/local-lib-2.000029/source/Makefile.PL#L79 https://metacpan.org/release/HAARG/local-lib-2.000029/source...
- Izkata 4y agoThe article title doesn't have backtick-quotes either, so it certainly looks like they did something manually.
- zerocrates 4y agoThe actual <title> does have backticks. They're in there to make the periods in the on-the-page title display in a <code> tag, it looks like. I'd put my money on an automatic HN thing, it massages titles a fair amount.