Question Marks

Rimfire · May-10-22 10:05

Why is it when I type a period or apostrophe it shows on the post as a question mark? That can get kind of confusing. Should I be using a special font or something or does it just become part of the language after a while? Can?t understand it?

bearcatter · May-10-22 10:05

I've noticed other people's posts having that happen, but mine seem okay. Question marks - ? ? ? ?. Periods - . . . . Apostrophes - ' ' ' '.

OV-1D · May-10-22 11:05

All good here also .I have no answers because I'm pretty computer illiterate .

Wumbey Goomba · May-10-22 16:05

It started a few months ago, it seems to be
related to Apple products.

postalman · May-10-22 17:05

I use an iPad and it?s the same with me. Gets kinda annoying after awhile.

Rimfire · May-20-22 21:05

I use an Apple iPad and iPhone - looks like Apple products are somehow the culprit here. Whatever, it?s annoying and confusing?

Gnomie · June-07-22 17:06

It's the virtual keyboard on iPhones, iPods and iPads. If you type a period with a quick touch, you get a period. If you pause and drag your finger on the same key, it enters a question mark.

Bj · June-09-22 06:06

Fo me it only happens on this forum, not anyplace else.

OV-1D · June-09-22 10:06

The fish at the bottom of the Indian River Lagoon are having a grand time with my electronics . Tossed my junk years back and I bet the battery still works . Nothing quite like getting rid of all these pains in the derriere and live without all the useless trash that comes with such atrocities especially this texting bullsh** . How lame will mankind get till they say NO MORE .

bearcatter · June-09-22 11:06

I think texting came in because you can't understand the other person or their voicemail on cell phones, even my flip phone. I can remember wired phones being clear as a bell. I did like cordless phones, they worked fine up to maybe 100 feet. Answer machines were okay, the ones that had a chip instead of a tape.

Canoeal · June-13-22 18:06

On this and most forums I am on I am using a HP laptop running windows 10 with a 21 in. monitor. No such problems here , and when I walk away from the laptop I am done, no reminders beeps, bings, whatever. My phone is a flip phone and my message states "I do not read texts, or answer voicemails on this phone. I you need to get in touch call the house." I do not leave you the house number...

copfish · March-12-23 09:03

I?m on OS (Apple) and I?m seeing it on all forums. Must be something in the OS. Frustrating.

postalman · March-12-23 13:03

I had the same problem on my iPad so I went into the settings and turned off some of the defaults on the keyboard (smart punctuation, split keyboard, enable key flicks, slide on floating keyboard to type). I don't know which one did the trick, but since I didn't miss any one of them, my problem was cured!

Ain't it grand!
I can't, so I won't.
Should've tried this sooner!
(Those last three lines were typed to "show the difference")

bearcatter · March-12-23 15:03

Your postal guys need help. I'm waiting on a package from FL. Half hour from Titusville to Orlando. It spent 28 hours in Orlando, next tracking was 11 hours in Maryland ( should have been Jacksonville and Greensboro). I don't know where it was after that, but it went another 35 hours. It finally got to our hub here 2 hours ago. So I''ll get it tomorrow, Monday. 76 hours from Titusville to our hub. Since it's Sunday, I wait another 20 hours to delivery.

I got the same size package from the same shipper last week, through Jacksonville and Greensboro, to hub in 34 hours. Five more to delivery. Both were First Class.

postalman · March-12-23 17:03

When my customers complained about slow mail delivery, I would give them my rationale." If it cost $0.50 to mail a letter and it takes two days to arrive, that works out to $0.25 a day. Now if the same letter takes five days to get to you, that would only be $0.10 a day. Now what's the better deal?" I'd usually run while their head was still swimming.

bearcatter · March-12-23 19:03

I just don't get having two identical trips, but one takes over twice as long as the other ? 28 hours in Orlando? Maybe there was a hot poker game in the break room.

I look at them in terms of mph. The slow trip averaged 10 mph. The faster one was was 21 mph.

billmeek · March-13-23 07:03

It's character encoding causing an issue. Try going to Settings / General / Keyboard and turn off the "Smart Punctuation" toggle.

copfish · May-09-23 06:05

Cool! Thanks for the tips! Turned off the recommended settings. Hopefully it works. I'll try some apostrophes and other words. I can't wait to see the results, either way I won't be disappointed. Now if I can figure out the spell better setting on my finger...