00039

Summary: Spelling errors caused by soft hyphen
Created: 2019-12-12 23:22
Status: Closed
Category: Bug
From: Issa Rice?
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Priority: 3
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Description: GreaterWrong seems to insert soft hyphen characters within words. This causes words to be flagged as misspelled in text boxes, when text is copied from GreaterWrong.

Just to give one example, from https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/PXoWk554FZ4Gpfvah/causal-reference copying and pasting "Is it co­her­ent to imag­ine a uni­verse in which a real en­tity can be an effect but not a cause?" causes the words "coherent", "imagine", "universe", and "entity" to be marked as misspelled in the Chrome text box. Pasting the same text into a plain text editor reveals the soft hyphens, e.g. "co-her-ent" (I'm using a regular hyphen here to make it visible). Issa Rice?

Assuming this was caused by middle-click pasting under X11, should be fixed in b9fe7111 saturn