New Forum Help Quote 'title' truncated by comma

[JohnW2]

Do you realise that if one includes a comma in the text defining the 'title' of a quote, that the title gets truncated by that comma? In other words, if I start a quote with:

[*quote="Yesterday afternoon, Fred Blogs"].... (asterisk added to stop forum software getting confused!)​

... the title in the quote box will appear as

Yesterday afternoon said: ​

IMO, that is certainly not desirably functionality, and I can't really think why anyone would want it. I haven't yet experimented to see if other punctuation, or other non-alphanumeric, characters do the same thing.

Comments?

Kind Regards, John

 

[DIYnot]

The comma is used to indicate different information to build a quote when using the quote button directly:

[QUOTE="JohnW2, post: 3435472, member: 158945"]Do you realise that if one includes a comma in the text defining the 'title' of a quote,[/QUOTE]

In the above example, it is given (and expects) username / post ID / member ID. So with your example it is expecting the post id when you use the comma.

Hope that makes sense!

 

[JohnW2]

The comma is used to indicate different information to build a quote when using the quote button directly: .... In the above example, it is given (and expects) username / post ID / member ID. So with your example it is expecting the post id when you use the comma. ... Hope that makes sense!

Yes, it makes sense, but it's a little annoying when one is doing it manually! Do I take it that this only happens with commas? Is there any way of getting a comma into the text?

Kind Regards, John

 

[DIYnot]

maybe

There is a solution, but it is using a different character which is not the conventional keyboard type comma (Unicode 'FULLWIDTH COMMA' vs 'COMMA'). You can use this in windows by typing Alt +FF0C or copy and paste from my example above.

Not very elegant but a work around if you really must have a comma in a quote attribution.

 

[JohnW2]

There is a solution, but it is using a different character which is not the conventional keyboard type comma (Unicode 'FULLWIDTH COMMA' vs 'COMMA'). You can use this in windows by typing Alt +FF0C or copy and paste from my example above.

Fair enough, although I have to say that, in your 'example above', it looks very much like a full stop to me!

Not very elegant but a work around if you really must have a comma in a quote attribution.

It's not that I 'must have a comma' but, rather (like this afternoon) it's very easy to type a comma without thinking!

Thanks for explaining, anyway!

Kind Regards, John

 

[DIYnot]

No problem! I know what you mean. Out of interest, this is the character above:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ff0c/index.htm

 

[JohnW2]

No problem! I know what you mean. Out of interest, this is the character above: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ff0c/index.htm

Fair enough but, as I said (although it clearly is a comma if one zooms in a fair bit) at normal screen size, it looks like a full-stop to me (but maybe that's my ageing eyesight!)! ...

Kind Regards, John