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Off Topic => Forum Issues => Topic started by: DeMatt on June 21, 2019, 05:38:40 PM

Title: Forum adding spaces after periods
Post by: DeMatt on June 21, 2019, 05:38:40 PM

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One space after this, please.  Now, two after this one.   Is that correct. ?
One space after this, please! Now, two after this one!  Is that correct!?

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The forum is adding spaces after every period I put into my posts, if they're not in a CODE block.   I do not know why.

Title: Re: Forum adding spaces after periods
Post by: Father Tim on June 21, 2019, 06:07:52 PM

Because you don't have enough approved posts yet to be confirmed as not a spambot.

The effect will go away on its own eventually.

Title: Re: Forum adding spaces after periods
Post by: DeMatt on June 21, 2019, 06:28:52 PM

Quote from: Father Tim link=topic=10434. msg114997#msg114997 date=1561158472

Because you don't have enough approved posts yet to be confirmed as not a spambot.

The effect will go away on its own eventually.

. . . so it's intended to break URIs?  That. . .  that's. . .  gaaah!  Primitive!  Uneducated!

The minimum definition for a URI is

Code: [Select]

scheme:path
, no periods necessary!  Putting spaces after colons would make more sense!  If you wanted to mess with URLs specifically, then putting spaces before/after forward slashes would do even better!

But everybody delineates sentences with periods, and a large chunk of the world uses periods as decimals, and no small portion of the world uses periods as thousands separators!  Messing with periods messes with ALL OF THAT!

Title: Re: Forum adding spaces after periods
Post by: Erik L on June 21, 2019, 07:20:17 PM

As Father Tim said, it goes away after a while.

It also changes http to hxxp and puts a space after a colon.


It's not meant to be super scientific or accurate. It munges urls (the main objective) and as a side effect adds an extra space after a period.