I see two consecutive period characters are converted into HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS (U+2026) - I was expecting for them to be left as is. But if they must be promoted to a character, I think TWO DOT LEADER (U+2025) would be more correct: that’s ‥ instead of …
Here are two periods which come out looking like three: …
(Filed under bug, but obviously not causing me a serious problem.)
I have Discourse page where two dots appear as three once the text field is entered.
I have already unchecked ‘enable markdown typographer’ in the admin settings. Within back-ticked code blocks, this auto-changing of dots will not happen; however, not all posters know this, and it can cause confusion because the page discusses programming syntax. I get that code will ideally be put in backticks, but sometimes syntax still gets mentioned within a paragraph.
Is there a way for these kinds of autocorrects to be fully un-enabled?
Disabling enable markdown typographer works as expected.
Posts will keep their … unless you rebuild HTML, since the raw content of the post contains ..
If you want all the posts to have … changed to .., I’m afraid you need to rebake them all after disabling enable markdown typographer (you could select only the posts which the raw contains .. with a rails command though).
Depending on how often this is done, I’d rather fix myself others’ posts and educate the users by asking them using codeblocks