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sooby

Oct 31, 2017 6:03 AM CST

Name: Sue
Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b)

This has happened to me at least one other time recently. I search on a name in the database and it says it can’t find it, did I mean - exactly the same thing I typed. Am I missing something?

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Australis

Oct 31, 2017 6:51 AM CST

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Name: Joshua
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Zone 10b)
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@dave (I've also seen this too, on occasion)

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dave

Oct 31, 2017 7:32 AM CST

Garden.org Admin

Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)

I can't replicate this problem. Would it be possible for you to link me to a search results page that shows this happening?

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sooby

Oct 31, 2017 8:25 AM CST

Name: Sue
Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b)

It did it again on the one I posted at the top of the thread:

https://garden.org/plants/sear...

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dave

Oct 31, 2017 8:26 AM CST

Garden.org Admin

Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)

How did you make that quote mark? That's not a normal single quote character.

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sooby

Oct 31, 2017 8:30 AM CST

Name: Sue
Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b)

I did it with a Belkin bluetooth keyboard with my iPad. The key has double quotes on shift and single quote without shift.

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sooby

Oct 31, 2017 8:33 AM CST

Name: Sue
Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b)

I tried it again using the iPad’s virtual keyboard instead of the bluetooth one and got the same result.

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dave

Oct 31, 2017 8:40 AM CST

Garden.org Admin

Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)

That's interesting. The ipad is creating a non-standard quote symbol and that's not being seen as the normal one. Well, now that I know this, maybe I can fix it. I'll look into it.

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Leftwood

Oct 31, 2017 8:52 AM CST

Name: Rick R.
Minneapolis, MN, USA zone 4

I see this kind of thing happen on google, too, and assumed that Dave's reply is what is happening. I had an email program that didn't recognize apostrophes in some inbox messages, and it always turned them into a string of non-alphabet characters.

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sooby

Oct 31, 2017 9:15 AM CST

Name: Sue
Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b)

dave said:That's interesting. The ipad is creating a non-standard quote symbol and that's not being seen as the normal one. Well, now that I know this, maybe I can fix it. I'll look into it.

I just tried the same search on my Android phone and it brought up the right result, no problem. On the bright side, at least the NGA database was smart enough to know what I meant on the iPad even though the symbol was wrong

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dave

Oct 31, 2017 9:18 AM CST

Garden.org Admin

Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)

I've updated the system. It shouldn't have any further problem with the strange Apple quote marks.

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sooby

Oct 31, 2017 9:21 AM CST

Name: Sue
Ontario, Canada (Zone 4b)

Yep, works now

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dave

Oct 31, 2017 9:49 AM CST

Garden.org Admin

Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)

Great. thanks for reporting this!

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zuzu

Oct 31, 2017 10:09 AM CST

Plants Admin

Name: Zuzu
Northern California (Zone 9a)

Those are "smart" quotes. When I was working for the government and producing camera-ready copy, I had to turn off all of the "smart" keys on MS Word because they tended to turn into odd characters.

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