UK, uS ??

[jozza]

If I type USA or UK in a post, it ends up being edited to uSA or uK. Why's that then?

[T.C~Tamiya]

Yes I noticed that too... don't know why though ???

[theshopkeeper]

Noticed that myself. Question is how did you manage to not get the lower case u in your post?

[DJTheo]

AFAIK there was something to make posts of people writing with caps lock on readable, interesting that it doesnt convert the whole word though into small letters [?]

Cheers

[netsmithUK]

All wrong []

Its all part of my war on TXT speak. Basically been working on a filter that converts lazy short hand hard to read TXT abbreviations into proper english []

Hit a problem though i got it converting 'u' to 'you' but it was doing it even in the middle of words and then somehow I couldn't seem to turn it off - lol. So I put another temporary fix in. The result is what you see. Will fix it properly at some point.

cheers

Chris

[fury_dice(2)]

quote:Originally posted by netsmithUK

Basically been working on a filter that converts lazy short hand hard to read TXT abbreviations into proper english []

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Somebody's got WAY too much time on their hands [][][]

I'm sure you could do it in Perl without too much aggro...[?]

[scoobs]

You can do *everything* with Perl without too much aggro

She's ugly but she's one capable lass...

But back to r/c...

[jozza]

quote:Originally posted by netsmithUK

All wrong []

Its all part of my war on TXT speak. Basically been working on a filter that converts lazy short hand hard to read TXT abbreviations into proper english []

Hit a problem though i got it converting 'u' to 'you' but it was doing it even in the middle of words and then somehow I couldn't seem to turn it off - lol. So I put another temporary fix in. The result is what you see. Will fix it properly at some point.

cheers

Chris

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thx m8, now i know wot its bn dun for i cn c y it appenz []

[theshopkeeper]

Nah, too many chars Jozza - you could get at least 3 less in that!

If you think text speak is bad though, you should meet a character I went to university with - his party trick was to speak english in binary coded ASCII...

[Incredible_Serious]

Bet he doesn't get much 'action'... lol...

[theshopkeeper]

Much!?! Considering he dressed exactly like Mr Bean, complete with the tweed jacket and given he supplimented it with an orange anorak when it was wet (yes, really), I think the word is ANY!

(Last I heard he's now in the civil service).

[jozza]

Hehe, bet the long winter nights just fly by in his house []

[minijosh]

Hmm I'll try it. uSA uK. Did it work?

[minijosh]

DOH!!!!!!!

[theshopkeeper]

So, Jozza, what's the secret then. How did you managed to get it to display correctly in your first post?

[ChrisB]

I think I have it.....

Born in the USA or even better....

in the UK

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[jozza]

quote:Originally posted by theshopkeeper

So, Jozza, what's the secret then. How did you managed to get it to display correctly in your first post?

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id="quote">id="quote">Ah, now that would be telling, it's a programmer's secret []. It's fairly well known how to do it, but as it can be used to bypass the badword filter I won't give it away here.... ygm []