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Offline DeMatt (OP)

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Forum adding spaces after periods
« 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!?

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.
 

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Re: Forum adding spaces after periods
« Reply #1 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.
 

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Re: Forum adding spaces after periods
« Reply #2 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!
 

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Re: Forum adding spaces after periods
« Reply #3 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.