Strange Autocorrect Bug?

Question

One of my colleagues reports that periodically when he’s typing a regular space will change into a Narrow No-Break Space (u202F). Actually that’s not what he reported, but what I figured out later. When it does happen it happens between particular words and is repeatable, meaning he can delete the two words and when he retypes them he can always visually see the space change from one to another. However, at other times (possibly after a PT restart?) it doesn’t happen and the space will stay normal between those words.

I cannot repeat the problem on my machine. I can verify that the data he sends has u202F spaces in it. He and I use the same version of the same font (Awami Nastaliq), we have the same keyboard, and I’ve checked that there’s nothing in the autocorrect.txt document causing this… at least on my machine. That autocorrect.txt file DOES get shared via S/R, correct?

Does anyone have any ideas of what could be causing this problem, or how to narrow down possible problems?

Answer 1

mnjames - this is one of those cases where it might be helpful to know more about his setup. What OS is he using? What version of Paratext? Does he have any other keyboard programs?

The best way to get help with this would be to use Help > Report a problem and make sure that he is very clear about the words that are causing the problems. The more details he can report the easier it will be to figure out what is happening.

Is he absolutely sure he is in the same project (with the same Autocorrect.txt)? I’ve seen numerous situations where someone realizes that they are looking at a different text.

Comments

Here’s using 8.0.100.67 and (I’m about 95% sure) Windows 10. I’ve asked him to send a report if the problem occurs again, so if no one knows off the top of their head what could be causing this we’ll just need to wait to see what that problem report shows.

Yes, I’m sure it’s the same project. I’m assuming it’s the same autocorrect.txt since we do S/R back and forth frequently, but that is why I was asking to verify that autocorrect.txt is synced. I just checked and it’s tracked by Mercurial, so I assume that means it’s included in S/R’s.

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mnjames:

I just checked and it’s tracked by Mercurial, so I assume that means it’s included in S/R’s.

Yes, autocorrect.txt is included in S/Rs.

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Does the autocorrect.txt get included in S/Rs to Paratext Lite as well? I assume it does.

Answer 2

Yes it does. Although its use is controlled in options.
Off by default, so one has to enable it, then restart the app.