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Related: About this forumWhen were apostrophes dropped from the title box??
I’ve noticed this multiple times today and it’s making me somewhat agitated because I know damn well how to use that punctuation mark and it’s making my posts look dumb!

procon
(15,805 posts)of my whole thread. I thought I erred, but even on edit I could get them to stay. I think this must be a new, if undesired, "feature".
Docreed2003
(18,131 posts)Weird! That’s the first time I’ve run into that here. Sometimes special characters will drop, but not apostrophes.
Me.
(35,454 posts)I had noticed special characters dropping but not apostrophes. Perhaps this is the same ongoing issue!!??
Jim__
(14,655 posts)They get stripped out of text that is copied into the title line. You can preview your post and then put the apostrophes back in by hand.
Docreed2003
(18,131 posts)Because I’ve done that multiple times today...adding back the proper apostrophe and it still drops. Perhaps I need to update my phone.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)
procon
(15,805 posts)Well, it appears to be working today. Very strange, so maybe just the geek men at work.
tblue37
(66,399 posts)Docreed2003
(18,131 posts)So my copying your text seems to work no problem...but if I type the same statement it drops...must be my phone!
procon
(15,805 posts)Make7
(8,547 posts)It looks like your device is not using the basic straight apostrophes - which are the only ones that seem to work here now.
Replace apostrophes with '
Replace quotes with "
Irish_Dem
(67,468 posts)Docreed2003
(18,131 posts)Sláinte!
Irish_Dem
(67,468 posts)Last edited Mon Oct 9, 2017, 03:09 PM - Edit history (1)
JimGinPA
(14,814 posts)sláinte agad-sa?
Irish_Dem
(67,468 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,499 posts)And I assume that “I’m” won’t have an apostrophe in the title box.
Make7
(8,547 posts)If your device can't produce them, you can use html entities to replace them in titles.
Replace apostrophes with '
Replace quotes with "
Copy this into a reply title and see what happens:
Bleacher Creature
(11,499 posts)Thanks!!!
Bleacher Creature
(11,499 posts)It must have changed the keyboard to hooked apostrophes.
Thanks again!
Make7
(8,547 posts)It looks like they are calling the curved apostrophes and quotation marks Smart Punctuation. I saw on another forum that you can turn it off in Settings > General > Keyboard > Smart Punctuation.
If you try that and it works, you should report back to let others know.
Bleacher Creature
(11,499 posts)Did it work?
rzemanfl
(30,493 posts)CottonBear
(21,615 posts)Thanks to our fellow poster for the solution!
Docreed2003
(18,131 posts)I still haven’t figured out what’s up
Bleacher Creature
(11,499 posts)guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,835 posts)Don’t know if it’s just on my phone or my PC as well.