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Blue_Belle · Satellite level

Weeks 35-36 - US Open, New York, USA Main Draw - Hard

Lee · Lower Club Player

has Frans 1st round match still not been played? Were on day 5 ??

-- Edited by Lee on Wednesday 2nd of September 2026 04:29:04 PM

-- Edited by Lee on Wednesday 2nd of September 2026 04:29:52 PM

Lee · Lower Club Player

ummm, apostrophes and edit seem not to be working for me ?

sammmm · County player

Lee wrote:
ummm, apostrophes and edit seem not to be working for me ?

If you're on a mobile then unfortunately apostrophes get removed when sending

JonH · Tennis legend

sammmm wrote:
Lee wrote:
ummm, apostrophes and edit seem not to be working for me ?
If you're on a mobile then unfortunately apostrophes get removed when sending

Sadly, correct!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

I seldom use my phone to post but just double checking

CD's apostrophe check - '''''

Well, how's that?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

JonH wrote:
sammmm wrote:
Lee wrote:
ummm, apostrophes and edit seem not to be working for me ?
If you're on a mobile then unfortunately apostrophes get removed when sending
Sadly, correct!

er.... I posted my post above on my mobile - and I've got all the apostophes confuse biggrin

JonH · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
JonH wrote:
sammmm wrote:
Lee wrote:
ummm, apostrophes and edit seem not to be working for me ?
If you're on a mobile then unfortunately apostrophes get removed when sending
Sadly, correct!
er.... I posted my post above on my mobile - and I've got all the apostophes

Maybe its an Apple thing? I never get them showing when I post from mine!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

JonH wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
JonH wrote:
sammmm wrote:
Lee wrote:
ummm, apostrophes and edit seem not to be working for me ?
If you're on a mobile then unfortunately apostrophes get removed when sending
Sadly, correct!
er.... I posted my post above on my mobile - and I've got all the apostophes

Maybe its an Apple thing? I never get them showing when I post from mine!

Might be .... I'm Samsung and have no problem

JonH · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
JonH wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
JonH wrote:
sammmm wrote:
Lee wrote:
ummm, apostrophes and edit seem not to be working for me ?
If you're on a mobile then unfortunately apostrophes get removed when sending
Sadly, correct!
er.... I posted my post above on my mobile - and I've got all the apostophes

Maybe its an Apple thing? I never get them showing when I post from mine!
Might be .... I'm Samsung and have no problem

Its been raised before by someone (I remember commenting) and apologising that it made my grammar seem even worse than I know it is!

Lambda_ · Intermediate Club Player

I suspect the issue with punctation disappearing is to do with your device using smart quotes. If your apostrophes, quote marks are curly then you'll be using smart quotes which a number of applications, including it appears this forum, treat as unrecognised symbols. I think Apple devices use smart quotes by default.

Test:

ASCII: '' ""

Smart quotes:

-- Edited by Lambda_ on Wednesday 2nd of September 2026 07:13:04 PM

JonH · Tennis legend

Indeed - makes sense. A quick chat with Petey supports:

Yes, iPhones have smart quotes built-in as a system-wide default feature called "Smart Punctuation".It automatically turns straight quotes into curly quotes ( ).You can check or change this by going to Settings > General > Keyboard and looking for the Smart Punctuation toggle.AndroidNo, Android does not use smart quotes by default on its standard keyboards like Gboard.Android typically types straight, "dumb" quotes (" ').You can usually access curly quotes on Android by long-pressing the quote or symbol keys, but there is no built-in system-wide auto-formatting toggle for smart quotes like iOS has.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Ok - rejoining the fun - the people above were talking about apostrophes, not speech marks

And Jon's previous problems had definitely been with apostrophes, not speech (quotation) marks

But tackling both.....with Samsung....

"Hello, Jon, how's life?"

"It's great, thanks, CD"

Off to the test centre...

"smile"

ADD: Back from the test centre, Samsung nails it smile - mobile phone apostrophes, speech marks, you name it

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 2nd of September 2026 07:24:16 PM

JonH · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Ok - rejoining the fun - the people above were talking about apostrophes, not speech marks

And Jon's previous problems had definitely been with apostrophes, not speech (quotation) marks

But tackling both.....with Samsung....

"Hello, Jon, how's life?"

"It's great, thanks, CD"

Off to the test centre...

"smile"
ADD: Back from the test centre, Samsung nails it - mobile phone apostrophes, speech marks, you name it

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 2nd of September 2026 07:24:16 PM

Testing, ..." "

JonH · Tennis legend

JonH wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
Ok - rejoining the fun - the people above were talking about apostrophes, not speech marks

And Jon's previous problems had definitely been with apostrophes, not speech (quotation) marks

But tackling both.....with Samsung....

"Hello, Jon, how's life?"

"It's great, thanks, CD"

Off to the test centre...

"smile"
ADD: Back from the test centre, Samsung nails it - mobile phone apostrophes, speech marks, you name it

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 2nd of September 2026 07:24:16 PM
Testing, ..." "

Haven't I done well