Strange, I was trying to copy some text from an email I composed in my iphone email client and paste into radiomail. Nothing would paste. I narrowed it down to at least one character that was causing the inability.
If I copy the below apostrophe I entered in iphone mail client, it cannot be copy/pasted into a radiomail msg.
’
However, if I copy the apostrophe below I entered into this post (from the same ipad) it does paste into radiomail:
'
Happens on both my ipad and iphone.
Thanks
That character (’) is the right single quotation mark. It is a unicode character U+2019. Winlink only supports the ISO-8859-1 character set. RadioMail will prevent you from pasting any text that contains character outside of ISO-8859-1, otherwise bad things could happen.
George, thanks. Both “ and
‘ fail to paste into a RADIOMAIL msg regardless of what iPhone app I copy content that includes them: a text msg, a random web page, notes, email, a groups.io post.
On the pc, I open the same email and same groups.io post with the “ and or ‘ characters, I can copy and paste them into a winlink express message without issue.
Seems there could be a way for RADIOMAIL to simply translate these (and others) to the corresponding character expected.
I can see end user’s frustrated with routine iPhone copy/paste into a RADIOMAIL msg not working as expected and desired.
Thanks.
Yes, Winlink Express will let you paste all sort of things but then it deletes those characters once the message is put in the outbox. I could argue that losing user data is worst than not allowing it in the first place.
While some sort of translation for the most common "offenders" like single and double curly quotes is conceivable, the problem arise when user tries to paste other things like UTF-8 text. This was a problem in earlier testing of RadioMail where a user would paste hebrew for example, and it would look ok in the message editor but then it would get all jumbled when the message was sent.
The ultimate fix is to upgrade Winlink to support UTF-8. Not trivial, but it's doable and long overdue. In meantime, I'll see if there are low hanging fruit conversion to minimize user frustration as you described.
Georges, thanks. After some experimentation, here is what I found.
Any content composed by an iphone/ipad (email, text msg, web posts..) containing a ‘ or “ as in The Captain said “There’s no firefighter’s coming for today’s events”.
When sent from the iphone to winlink email addresses, are replaced with a question mark ?. Becoming a question instead of a statement in the eyes of the WLE users.
When the iphone generated content is copy/pasted into a WLE msg, those characters are dropped when the msg is posted to the outbox.
Agree that RADIOMAIL could at least behave like WLE, and drop the characters, vs. failing to paste without any indication as to why paste is not working.
Of course, replacing the apple ‘ and “ (or anything) with the ISO-8859-1 equivalent, would at least provide a functioning solution.
Thanks for all you do !
I'm on board with replacing curly quotes with the nearest ISO-8859-1 equivalent. I see that as universally sensible.
I'm not on board with using an apostrophe-s to pluralize words. That is an incorrect use of an apostrophe, and should be culled during paste... and the phone wiped... but that's asking a lot.
LOL,