Question about glitch in posts.

[Jeebo]

I've noticed that when you type something in parentheses that also has double quotes, when you close it all, you have a closed double quote character followed by a closed parenthesis character, and then when you post it, the closed parenthesis character always gets changed to a smiley face character. How do you keep this from happening?

I'm going to type that sequence several times now just to confirm that it's what's happening, and then when I post this and open it up again, if it's not happening, I'll immediately delete this post.

(something in "parentheses and quotes&quot

(let's see if this happens "again&quot

(one more "time&quot

Maybe a solution would be to put a space between the closed double quote and the closed parenthesis ("example" ), but you shouldn't have to do that, you should be able to type that sequence of characters without it changing it.

-- Ron

[Hoyt]

1. Trying it from old iPad.

(Let’s see “from here”)

[Jeebo]

3. Those are not the same double quote characters.

Look closely, yours are slanted and mine (typed on a 15-inch MacBook Pro laptop keyboard) are straight. Different characters. If I knew how to access your slanted quotes, I'd start using them.

-- Ron

[Hoyt]

7. Yeah, I noticed that. Don't know why, but they are slanted on my screen keyboard

as well. I must have a Russian hacked keyboard or something in the process.

[Blue Dawn]

2. Hmm....I think I will try it, too.

Here is my attempt at ("typing with quote marks and parentheses&quot

Let's see what happens!

Yep, you are right! It just happened to me, too!

I wonder if that can be fixed?

[PJMcK]

4. Insert a space before your quotes

It’s a DU thing for emojis... which I hate.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. What makes it weird though is that ONLY ONE character is being converted to an emoji

Normally it makes sense, but in this case it doesn't.

This is only two characters, double quote and closed paren, and it still does this. If that 2 character combo were an emoji shortcut, one should be left with only the winky face. But it isn't what happens.

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[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. You're right that is a glitch in the software used in the forum

Nothing that comes before matters ... if you just type double-quote-closed parentheses it does the same, as I did here.

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And you have also correctly ID'd the workaround.

[Make7]

8. They may be escaping double quotes in the database to prevent scripts from running.

It looks like they are escaping quotes in messages with an html entity as a security measure. The quotation marks are being replaced with " and when coupled with the closing parentheses will result in ") - which happens to trigger the wink smilie ;) leaving &quot behind, which most browsers will display as a quotation mark even without the semi-colon. Thus, the quotation mark–wink smilie display.

The solution is to use an html entity to defeat the emoticon character combination shortcut. Either with a normal closing parentheses ) or a full width one ） - the full width one can simply be copied when needed, the normal one turns into the actual character upon being previewed and therefore has to be posted while still an html entity - usually just hitting the back button on your browser after previewing works fine.

If this glitch bugs you, just copy and use the parentheses from this:

（one last "time"）

You can bookmark this thread to find this again. Or just use the 'insert the space' solution.