(September 2, 2018 at 5:37 pm)emjay Wrote:(September 2, 2018 at 5:03 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: @negatio- are you on a phone or PC? There's nothing in the forum software that should be changing the spelling of your words. Online forums are dumb. There's no artificial intelligence built into them. It's really just a series of forms that save data (posts) to a database for future retrieval. So, if anything is changing your spelling, it's some form of auto-correct that's from a different source (likely your phone, if that's what you're using).
I never use the quote/multi-quote system because it is unwieldy. I'm not sure how to clean out a multi-quote chain. Once you do have it cleared, then simply use the 'Reply' button in the future. It'll save everyone a lot of headaches.
PS - Junior Member doesn't mean anything... it simply means you've made a certain number of posts here. It doesn't convey any additional perks.
He said he's using a PC before. It does actually change things in my experience, especially to do with emoticons, though I don't know about spelling. That's why I moved over to having it default to source mode because it was annoying me, and I wanted to know exactly what I was getting.
Emoticons are likely transformed via regular expressions. Regular expressions is (are?) essentially a pattern matching language. So, you create a pattern, and then if that pattern is matched, it will replace the pattern with something else.
It's definitely possible for words to be matched. Forums that don't allow profanity tend to have a blacklist of words (and common workarounds) that are filtered with RegEx into some other form. I wouldn't think this forum would have that turned on, however, given its stances on speech and profanity. So, that leads me to believe something else in in play. Could be wrong, of course.
More info on RegEx if anyone is interested: https://www.regular-expressions.info/
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