Problem with parenthesis on forums with ios 11

edmaul69

Im not sure if it is an issue with the mobile site or its in ios 11 but on this site only parenthesis now look like this “&” instead of straight parenthesis which makes it impossible to type out commands to help people on here. This is the only site that does it. If i copy these curved parenthesis onto another site they change to the normal ones. But on here they post as curved ones. Any help is much appreciated.

obsidianspider

@edmaul69 Maybe it's some weird "UK Keyboard" thing? I've seen issues with that kind of thing in Raspbian, but I wouldn't think a website would do that.

lostless

()()()()(). Testing “”””””” ||||||
Works fine here using US keyboard.

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Test code
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That’s not working on iphone

edmaul69

@lostless said in Problem with parenthesis on forums with ios 11:

“””””””

look at your parenthesis. they show 2 different curved ones like “ & ” when they are supposed to look like this " so even you have them typed wrong which means when i try to type stuff like:

input_player1_a_btn = "1"

it actually ends up typing like this on my iphone

input_player1_a_btn = “1”

if you cant see the difference then get on here on a pc and you will see the difference. only this site does this though.

lostless

@edmaul69 ahhh i see. Looks like that key is not available on iOS keyboard. Why? Most people don’t need it.

edmaul69

@lostless the regular parenthesis like this " is what it types on every other website or app. it is only messed up here.

lostless

@edmaul69 Odd. Maybe iOS is not using standard ascii. I’m looking for a “different” keyboard.

lostless

"test"
Looks like Google's keyboard is doing it right

BuZz

I don't think this is a forum bug - but you can report it to nodebb if you like. Nothing I can do.

A Former User

Also those are quotation marks, not parenthesis. ( ) these are parenthesis.

caver01

@edmaul69 There is some confusion--parentheses are ( ( ( (and ) ) ) ) but what you are showing as examples are quotation marks: A double quotation " and curly "smart quotes" “ and ”.

IOS does let you overcome the quote mark issues a couple ways.

You can disable Smart Punctuation in Settings>General>Keyboards
Selecting the character explicitly with a finger HOLD on the “ key.

Option 1 makes every tap on the quotation key (123 modifier, then located on the 2nd row, far right) create the normal " double quotation when you tap that key. With Smart Punctuation enabled (default) tapping the double quote key gives you the first (open) curly quote “, and the second use of it in your text gives you the second (closed) curly quote ”.

Option 2 lets you tap and hold that key until a popup character menu appears where you can slide over to the exact character you want. This works whether Smart Punctuation is enabled or disabled.

caver01

@lostless said in Problem with parenthesis on forums with ios 11:

‘
Test code
‘
That’s not working on iphone

Your example here trying to use the fixed width font markdown for code will work fine on an iPhone if you use the right character. The apostrophe that you tried to use at the beginning of a line is actually being picked up as the start of a single, curly "smart" quotation ‘ which isn't the right character for code block markdown. You want to use the "backtick" which you can access using the tap-HOLD technique on the apostrophe. Press the key you are using now in the IOS keyboard, but HOLD for a moment until the character selection popup appears. Now, slide over to the one on the far left. This is the backtick :

but a lot of fonts have this character looking very much like the smart single curly quotation mark.