You can also hold down on the ‘ key and ' will pop up.
But really if you are coding on your phone frequently enough this is a major occurrence, get an external keyboard, an app designed for coding, or a device other than your phone.
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There is a subtle difference in the quotes
Anyways that setting can be changed by turning off smart punctuation in keyboard settings
I wanted to trash by iPhone
it is pushing me to stop using everything Apple.
If such a minor inconvenience that can be trivially worked around is enough to get you to destroy an iPhone and stop using Apple products altogether, what will you do when you inevitably encounter something of similar magnitude on Android? Do you think there are no bugs, inconsistencies, or questionable choices on Android?
I encounter the same smart quotes issue every now and then when I copy-paste commands from Word documents. Such documents are usually sent by customers or written by other employees. Should I quit my job over this?
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.
I am entering passwords in plaintext as environment variables for docker.
Through what app though?
I don’t understand the question.
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.
You should urgently understand the question. You would know that it's not an issue of iOS.
Please see the sidebar regarding welcoming people of any experience level and not gatekeeping based on technical skill
Probably TextEdit or some other general-purpose text editor.
iOS decides
You should paste the password from your password manager, and I'm pretty sure you're not doing that. Also why are you using iOS for Docker? If it's true, you would have the same issue with Android.
I have to use quotes around the password, that is the issue.
Again, no issue if you use a password manager. Use a password manager FFS.
You probably don’t understand my use case. I have to enter the password in clear text in a configuration file on a server.