I now can understand why you don't understand .... 😀
I made a mistake writing English.
An exclamation mark is as follows, like this !
Three exclamation marks are like this !!!
I don't know the English term for these marks, like this "
Three of these marks are like this """
I made the mistake of calling these marks """ exclamation marks.
The whole thread becomes rather funny if you read it in this perspective.
I apologise for the inconvenience. I hope you all can laugh about this mistake of mine.
I've experienced such misunderstandings many times. The confusion on both sides can eventually become quite hilarious. 😀
To clarify what I mean:
If I make the first post in a newly ceated thread by me I always have to edit and add these marks " ". They never stick the first time I post. So, I have to push the <edit> button and add all the " marks.
I hope it is understandable now 😵
Originally posted by ivanhoeThey are called quote marks, quotation marks or, to be precise, double quote marks or double-quotes.
I don't know the English term for these marks, like this "
Three of these marks are like this """
Some people call them (double) inverted commas because, in many fonts, they look like upside-down versions of the comma (,)
If you want to write them in HTML or XML, you use the character entity "&quot;". In other programming languages, you have to use double double-quotes to get them to appear, in others again you have to prefix with a backslash (\"😉. Getting this right when accepting user input is a huge headache; I suspect that this accounts for the strange effect that this thread is supposed to be about.😕
There used to be (and may still be) a bug of this type concerning single quote marks (also known as apostrophes) in in-game messages: I used sometimes to see a backslash appear in my messages, like this "There\'s something wrong here"
If all the above shows up the way I intend it to, without needing an edit, I'll be amazed.🙄
Originally posted by ivanhoeIt is understandabe now and I laughed, it was (a bit) funny!
To clarify what I mean:
If I make the first post in a newly ceated thread by me I always have to edit and add these marks " ". They never stick the first time I post. So, I have to push the <edit> button and add all the " marks.
I hope it is understandable now 😵
I think this has to do with the fact that html code is masked when you write in the forum: you can't make any links and so on (and no quotations).
There seems to ba a very smal bug with that in the "reply&quote".
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Originally posted by RolandYoungRY: There's an unwanted smiley "😉 where I put " followed by )
It's worse than I expected! There's an unwanted smiley "😉 where I put " followed by ), and when I try to edit the post, I get an error 😲ðŸ˜
I've experienced this many times. In a serious post it sometimes is very embarrassing. It teached me to always check my post after posting .....
("example"😉 becomes ["example"]