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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."
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.
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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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
It looks like you're trying to use vowels...
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
f yu cn rd ths, yu rlly nd t gt ld...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I don't see the problem here...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I'd like to buy a vowel for $1000 Chuck. Not.
Write English!
Damn Czechs.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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.
To auto core wrecked or not to autocrrect. That is the qestion
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.
It is not a b*g. It is a f#^t*r#.
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?
Since when is 'Welsh people' a (new) race?
"Trump!!", the new Godwin.
Perhaps, like some journalists, the vowels are trying to unionize.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Careful with the nationalist humor, you don't want to be labeled racist like Hognoxious.
Oh, and thanks for the laugh.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
I don't care about labels. Toss your label on the pile behind me, I think there's still room between "Fascist", "Misogynist", "Pinko Commie" and "SJW".
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I hate predictive text. When I search for "BBW" it gives me "BBC", which is not what I want whatever is meant by it.
S d spkrs of Hbrw and Arbc nd t "b frtfl and mltpl" mr?
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.
Only among people who can't spell xenophobia.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I bet he couldn't even point to Walce on a map!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Being Welsh is not a race, so you're doing it wrong already for 50 years.
No bad feelings, so I forgive you too.
"Trump!!", the new Godwin.
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.
Legendary Apple QA.
Fake News according to President Tramp.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
You can hate someone without being afraid of them.
Lots of modern words don't mean exactly what you'd get by decomposing to their classical roots, translating them, and reassembling the result.
Pornography is not [necessarily] writing about prostitutes, for example.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
This picture is of Apple software engineers learning about Natural Language Processing. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/121...
You're just jealous because I know big words and you don't.
noun: xenophobia
dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.
"racism and xenophobia are steadily growing in Europe"
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
And your reply above that was literally to someone talking about the changing definition of words.
It's amazing how many people don't write like that.I find it very annoying,don't you?
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