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Apple is getting on my nerves (lemmy.today)
submitted 13 hours ago by npdean@lemmy.today to c/saltycaramelapple@sh.itjust.works
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I use a lot of programming and sef hosting things at home. I have to enter passwords and write basic text files which have to be accurately read by all devices.

I, for the life of me, could not manage to solve a problem about a password. I tried many forums and what not and eventually a person on one of the forum said that my syntax is incorrect. I was so confused because I have done the exact same thing hundreds of times and it never caused an issue.

What I wanted to write was (quotes are a part of it) 'xyz'. This is what my PC writes. iOS decides that it should be ‘xyz’. There is a subtle difference in the quotes if you look carefully.

I wanted to trash by iPhone and buy an Android so bad at that moment.

Anyways that setting can be changed by turning off smart punctuation in keyboard settings. But the point is trashy defaults with no clear communication about it.

This whole post might be stupid and petty but it is pushing me to stop using everything Apple.

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 10 points 12 hours ago (11 children)

Fwiw, the iOS SDK provides a way for text fields to declare that “smart punctuation” should be disabled when typing into them.

For example, my terminal app always has it disabled. Password fields default to having smart punctuation disabled.

So I’m kinda curious how you’re doing it.

[–] npdean@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago (10 children)

I am entering passwords in plaintext as environment variables for docker.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Through what app though?

[–] npdean@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I don’t understand the question.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 points 2 hours ago

What app are you running in order to edit the text files?

My guess is you’re using something meant for word processing, not working with dev tools, which could mean you’ll run into more problems than this.

Line endings, tabs vs spaces, BOM, etc. could become hard-to-debug errors if you’re not using a tool that’s designed with code/config files in mind.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You should urgently understand the question. You would know that it's not an issue of iOS.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Please see the sidebar regarding welcoming people of any experience level and not gatekeeping based on technical skill

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Probably TextEdit or some other general-purpose text editor.

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