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An iOS 11.1 Glitch Is Replacing Vowels (mashable.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Mashable:
We became privy to a new iPhone keyboard glitch after a few Mashable staffers recently started having issues with their iPhone keyboards, specifically with vowels. The issue started when iOS 11's predictive text feature began to display an odd character in the place of the letter "I," offering up "A[?] instead and autocorrecting within the message field...The bug was also covered by MacRumors, but it appears that my colleagues have even more issues than just the letter "I." One reported that they were also seeing the glitch with the letters "U" and "O" as well, making the problem strictly restricted to vowels. They also said the letters showed up oddly in iMessage on Mac devices, and shared some more screenshots of what the glitch looks like when they went through with sending a message. The glitch wasn't just limited to iMessage, however. My colleagues shared screenshots of their increasingly futile attempts to type out messages on Facebook Messenger...and Twitter.
Apple seems to be acknowledging that the iOS 11.1 glitch may affect iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches. "Here's what you can do to work around the issue until it's fixed by a future software update," Apple posted on a support page, advising readers to "Try setting up Text Replacement for the letter 'i'."
Apple seems to be acknowledging that the iOS 11.1 glitch may affect iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches. "Here's what you can do to work around the issue until it's fixed by a future software update," Apple posted on a support page, advising readers to "Try setting up Text Replacement for the letter 'i'."
Noticed this not I have. But then Welsh I am, Boyo.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
you're typing it wrong
iOS - destroying the English language since 2007.
Like the Headphone jack, vowels are obsolete. It makes sense for Apple to phase them out for us in their latest phones, hopefully leading the rest of the industry to remove them from Android phones, keyboards in general, and so on, within the next couple of years.
Now, sure, some might say "Hey, I still use vowels, they're really useful when you're trying to distinguish between two words that have the same consonants, but a different sound joining them, like "cat" and "cut"", but that's old thinking, as leaving a gap is perfectly fine and should be good enough for everyone. Who cares if you were using lots of cheap old consonants? They're inefficient and completely unnecessary. So cat at out.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Dn't wst thm.
I've been seeing it on reddit and twitter and thought I was out of the loop on some stupid meme.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
Does this explain the outbreak of &@(TM)$ that seems to be afflicting our beloved site?
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halp ma!! At as annaaing !!
Hundreds of new emoji are coming with iOS 11.1 !! Youhou !!!
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
Just because you have new hardware or OS, why rewrite the code for an application that already works? Of course, maybe they didn't rewrite the keyboard code and something in the OS is interacting with the keyboard code that's screwed up. In either case, there's a quality control testing problem with code development .
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
I haven't noticed the problem.
Sent from my new A@phone
It looks like you're trying to use vowels...
My daughter's really excited. She's got a part-time job working at the shopping mall over Christmas. We're taking her to be measured for her cloak and hood for Satan's Grotto.
Our daughter just completed her first week of her-part time job. She got laid on Friday, $300
Just bought a new cable subscription today. The kids found the remote control and spent all day watching the Dismal Channel.
Yr Hldng T Wrng
that this is fallout from them trying to replace the dots over all 'i's with tiny little Apple logos?
Rule 35 of the internet: "If it can be hacked, it will be". - Charles Stross
I gave up on IOS being stable as it used to be. Same old activation issues when you buy a new iPhone, IOS problems that take months to iron out. Plus the fact your old device get's slower and slower and you lack much ability to go back to a older release. At least the trade in values are still good so I can at least recoup some value for may iPad Mini 2 that IOS 11 completely made a snail with the upgrade.
An iDevice having issues with the letter i? Oh, the iRony.
I'd like to buy a vowel for $1000 Chuck. Not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGNVU5ZjlgA&list=PLHN7G9IVyJ3Ml-MgXt4jlm2c2-267l6-Z
Since Sierra my computer started replacing all double spaces with a period. Gahhhh!!!
turns out this is a checkbox option in the Preferences>keyboard>text setting in OSX.
why would that be an important optimization. It's not even fewer keystrokes and almost never ever something you would want to rely on. ever.
Anyhow that same preference pane tab is where you turn off smart quotes and keep slashdot from changing your apostrophes to catastrophes.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I...just... how???????
Perhaps it isn't the device, but rather something input which causes them to have these abnormal vowel movements? I mean, we really don't know squat about this, so maybe we shouldn't asssume.
Never mind the price, feel the quality...
Irritable Vowel Syndrome.
(as in "courage" but thinner, less the (obsolete) vowels)
Don't worry, vowels have not been completely depreciated, you can buy them as a dongle now.
By that logic, any attempted joke about ethnic groups isn't racist, just as long as it's an attempt to be funny. Does that mean I can crack jokes about putting Jews in Nazi ovens and it's not racist because it's a joke? You are wrong. Reductio ad absurdum. QED.
Ugh. The parent post is a racist 'joke' about Welsh people. Hognoxious needs to apologize for his post. Slashdot should release the usernames of the moderators responsible for modding the post up. It's time to expose the racists who are promoting racist comments.
I'm not exactly sure how SMS formats text but my older flip phone truncates messages only from iOS 11.0.03 and later devices. Maybe they switched to UCS-2?
It is not a b*g. It is a f#^t*r#.
Yes it does.
It's called black humor. I can joke about Jews without being a racist.
The problematic sequence that gets generated is the capital I followed by the hex sequence ef b8 8f, which is known as Variation Selector 16. That's “An invisible codepoint which specifies that the preceding character should be displayed with emoji presentation. Only required if the preceding character defaults to text presentation.” So in a sense it's technically correct, it's trying to say to display an eye or eyes when you've typed an "I". The problem is twofold: a) people aren't trying to type emoji, and 2) it doesn't actually work.
Michael J.
Root, God, what is difference?
So long as you don't sincerely wish to put Jews into Nazi ovens, sure, go right ahead. If your intent is to make people laugh, it's a joke; if your intent is to offend, it isn't. Simple as that. Yes, jokes can offend -- and the good ones often do offend whoever is unwittingly at the butt of them -- but, if the teller's intent was to make people laugh and someone laughs, well, it was a joke.
There's a difference between standing up and shouting "Let's throw all the Jews in Nazi ovens!", which would be difficult to defend as a joke, and getting on stage (or on Slashdot) and saying "Did you hear the one about the blind Jew who got baked? He could Nazi the oven." I got that one from a Rabbi.
Perhaps, like some journalists, the vowels are trying to unionize.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
You stupid street shitting sand monkey, get the fuck back to your jungle hole
I hate predictive text. When I search for "BBW" it gives me "BBC", which is not what I want whatever is meant by it.
Czechia... a whole country built around the idea of paying someone for services with an IOU...
Careful, you'll trigger someone.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Captachas and auto correct is how the coming robot overlords are communicating. In fact my autocorrect is s....NOTHING IS WRONG WITH AUTOCORRECT. PLEASE CONTINUE WITH YOUR DAY.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
Seems that all too well timed.
Also, the slashdot one where apple only allowed a week of reviewer access...
All apple needed was this to get out, and even fanboys would say, nah, I'll Wait, i need to be able to type...
That sounds a lot like modifying what you type to create a fingerprint of what you are topping.
Just a thought as vowels appear in a lot of Unicode positions but look the same, even though they are not the same code point.
Bloody kids...
this is getting out of hand, apple can't release software properly anymore, they ALWAYS fuck up updates.
holy shit, they've become worse than old Microsoft...
I just upgraded from mavericks to el cap, because they finally, mostly stopped breaking it every time they released updates for it...
Sierra? Nah... High sierra? Hahahahhaa, no. bugged. as. fuck. and will be bugged until patch 4 or 5.
Dissapointed. Apple can do better, they're being very fucking slack with QA on software... their engineering department should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this software to release full of stupid fucking bugs that should never have found their way into the release....
Get your fucking shit together, Apple! Getting fucking tired of this crap.
I bet he couldn't even point to Walce on a map!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
apple absolutely sucks at software.
There is no such thing as an inappropriate joke. . . . THAT'S WHY IT'S A JOKE!
(Edit: “Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.”. Yeah, no shit?!)
Because they likely fucked up ripping off a Blackberry feature. If it inserted a period and kept the double space, it would be more efficient under regular use, and auto correct if you miss hitting the period. If it replaces the double space with a period only, that's typical Apple thinking.
Fake News according to President Tramp.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Meh, I've got a teenager who replaces every utterence with "uuuuuuuuuu"
This picture is of Apple software engineers learning about Natural Language Processing. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/121...
sensitive on the internet, peeps are!
beware of the dark side, anger og resentment, the dark side are they!
trolls leads to resentment, resentment leads to anger... and ANGER to the dark side it leads!
care not for my inconsistent mumling, because consistent it is!
the keyboard is my ally and a powerfull ally it is *suspisiosly high sigh plus a peacefull facial expression*
By that logic, any attempted joke about ethnic groups isn't racist, just as long as it's an attempt to be funny. Does that mean I can crack jokes about putting Jews in Nazi ovens and it's not racist because it's a joke? You are wrong. Reductio ad absurdum. QED.
"A Red-neck walks into a wall. So do all his cousins/lovers."
Apple has jumped on board the DevOps ship, too?
How courageous.
Fck tht fr gme f sldrs...
Strange keyboards. I don't have a "I," key or a "I." key or a "A[?] key.
It's amazing how many people don't write like that.I find it very annoying,don't you?
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