Atlantis Doesn't recognize backtick properly in AutoCorrect

jpavel · Post by **jpavel** » Thu Mar 12, 2015 11:42 pm

An example will make this clear:

Define two AutoCorrect replacement strings:

|e'| -> é
|e`| -> è

Now if you AutoCorrect |e`|, it will yield é, just as if you AutoCorrect'ed |e'|.
This is with Atlantis 1.6.6.4. I don't have a copy on-hand at the moment, but I think that this worked properly with 1.6.6.3, since that was the version I used to define my AutoCorrect strings.

Jeses

Post by **Robert** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:59 am

This is not happening over here. Are these AutoCorrect replacement pairs associated with the French language? Are you typing in a document whose language is French? Are you typing on a QWERTY keyboard?

jpavel · Post by **jpavel** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:16 am

Hmm, I'm not in the French language, but rather English, USA. This happens across all my machines, Windows 7, 8.1, and XP.

I tried using Factory Settings, and the same behavior shows.

All other punctuation marks work correctly. It's as though Atlantis just doesn't recognize the backtick as a character for autocorrect: for instance, if I create an autocorrect entry

`a` -> atick

It will never AutoCorrect the `a`.

Is there some other debugging step I might try?

Thanks,
Jesse

Post by **Robert** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:06 am

I mentioned the French language because “é” or “è” are French vowels.
But you’re right. AutoCorrect does not work with what you call the back tick (which I assume to be the Unicode “SPACING GRAVE” character with code 96).

jpavel · Post by **jpavel** » Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:47 pm

Hi Robert,

Yup, the grave accent (96 aka U+0060) is what I meant by backtick.

I figure since other characters classified as Unicode modifier symbols (ex. "^" circumflex) work, the grave accent should play along with them.

Best,
Jesse

Post by **admin** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:34 pm

Atlantis always worked that way. You should not use different types of apostrophes within the "Replace what" pairs of the AutoCorrect because Atlantis would still treat them as straight apostrophes.

Please read the "D" section of the Inserting characters not available directly through the keyboard Help topic. It explains how to add such "replace with" items to Atlantis.

jpavel · Post by **jpavel** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 12:07 am

Thank you for the clarification.

Are there any other symbol/punctuation characters that I should avoid when defining AutoCorrect strings?

Best,
Jesse

Post by **Robert** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 9:21 am

Hi Jesse,
Why not stick with a single symbol like the underscore or the backslash for example?
As a rule, and for obvious reasons, you should use symbols that are readily available on your keyboard.
In any case, and as admin pointed out, you should stick to symbols that do not have (many) variants like the apostrophe or the quote marks. You should also avoid using symbols like the “grave accent” (your back tick) that are meant to be used in association with other characters (the so-called “spacing” or “non-spacing” Unicode characters). In other words, only use “standalone” symbols. If at all practical, you could use the “@”, “&”, “+”, “=”, or “|” signs, for example.
HTH.
Cheers,
Robert