I mentioned in my original post that I did reset my password right after reading the email.
@bjbear71: It’s odd that Apple would refer to your email address instead of your Apple ID. How do you know that the email was from Apple? Which password did you reset – your Apple ID password or your Gmail password? Did you reset that password by clicking a link in the email?
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I addressed a couple of your points previously in my original post:
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I reset my Apple ID password on the web, not by replying to the email;
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Apple did not deny that the email was from them when they replied to my security report;
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I did not click on any links within the email, even though it was legit.
Why Apple did what they did you would have to ask them, I don’t have that answer.
Indeed: ЅІАВЕМНОРСТХ
Also Greek: ΑΒΕΖΗΙΚΜΝΟΡΤ
And that Mathematical Alphanumeric block can do the Greek as well!
As I read the post, I was vaguely remembering the same thing from typing class in grade 11.
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That’s why I use a monospace font when I need something to line up.
If you’re doing columns of numbers with a proportional font, there’s always the decimal tab.
Junior high school typing class, 1967. I remember using a lowercase L instead of a one, and faking an ! with apostrophe plus period.
Gawd now I feel old.
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Most fonts with proportional-spaced numbers have a variation with monospaced numbers.
In the Fonts palette, click the (…) button and choose Typograpy…. There should be an option to control number spacing. (The option seems to have different names for different fonts.)
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Don’t! I took typing class in 1975. It had more impact on my life than nine out of ten classes I’ve taken from grade 6 on.
Interestingly (I hope), towards the end of a long career in tech, I “discovered” manual typewriters again at age 56, and currently own nearly forty working examples. My oldest typewriter dates to 1930, and it’s still being used productively and with pleasure.
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Totally agree that it was one of the most useful classes I ever took in school.
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I routinely type lower case l (L) instead of shift-i when I want a capital I on my phone. I can’t see the difference, and I sometimes wonder if other phones/fonts/rendering engines can tell.
Edit: I mean when typing in whatsapp or texting, or in an email… nothing important.
Anytime a computer uses your typed input, such as user names, passwords, and online forms, manual typewriter substitutions will make a difference.
For example, if an ecommerce site’s fraud prevention includes matching your typed billing address to an address stored by your credit card issuer, 123 Main Street will not match l23 Main Street. Or if you are managing your stock portfolio and want to buy shares of SoFi, an order for SOFl, not SOFI, will result in a big surprise when your trade confirmation arrives.
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It may end up messing up your autocorrect. iOS (and I assume Android as well) learns from what you type. When it attempt an autocorrect and you tap on the region telling it that you meant what you typed, it learns and updates its dictionary.
You may end up training your phone to deliberately misspell words by replacing “I” with “l”.
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IOS autocorrect etc is so absolutely, spectacularly useless that it couldn’t be worse. I can reset the dictionary (which I do regularly) and it will still think that i and s are actual words. I’ve tried to teach it… it’s hopeless.
Ok, it could be worse… it could be that I couldn’t turn it off from actually autocorrecting things, instead of just underlining them.
Everyone’s experience is different, of course. “YMMV” isn’t just an acronym.
I’ve personally not had too much bad luck with iOS autocorrect. I do have to pay attention to what it’s subbing in, but it usually learns things readily, at least for the duration of the current usage session. It does almost always guess the incorrect forms of “were”/“we’re” and “it’s”/“its” for the sentence, but then, lots of humans can’t get those right either.
What baffles me are the autocompletion suggestions. The algorithm for this clearly has no understanding of how grammar works, as I frequently find myself typing long words that I have to type all the way out because the autocomplete is suggesting every form of the word except the one that’s actually grammatically correct for the sentence (e.g., I’m trying to type “recovery” and the suggestions I get are “recovering”, “recovered”, “recovers”, etc.). (By “long words”, I’m talking about words of more than about six or seven letters.)
I’ve also noticed that the ability to immediately correct an autoreplaced word is broken if the replacement contains more than one word. Normally, an autoreplaced word can be immediately recovered if you backspace the space it automatically inserts; it then pops up what you originally typed. (I’ve not found tapping on the blue-underlined replacement to consistently offer this, despite numerous claims that it does.) But if the replacement contains a word separator (space, hyphen, etc.), backspacing usually doesn’t offer what you typed. You have to delete the entire replacement text and start again.
And then there’s how iOS will gladly automatically delete the space it inserted after a word in you follow it with a closing parenthesis, but not for a closing quotation mark. I get that it doesn’t know the difference between the two quote marks when you tap the key (for the standard American English quotation mark), but it ought to be able to tell that you typed an opening quote mark earlier (i.e., a quote mark usually preceded by a space and with no space immediately following it) and guess that the next quotation mark you type is going to be a closing one, which should have no space before. (There are cases where you won’t be closing the quote marks, but these are far less common than cases where you will.) It could just count quotation marks in a paragraph, for that matter, and automatically remove the space before for the even-numbered ones.
Compared to these other autoreplacement oddities, regular autocorrect has been pretty good to me.
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