Why are apostrophes replaced with "'"?

This is because if the word you are typing isnt in the keyboards dictionary, usually if you clear the dictionary words through Settings / Keyboard options and then add the word to the dictionary.

actually, "I'll" and "I'm" are in the dictionary. so i think there's something else at play here. :smileysad:

But thanks for the quick responce!

pat----

Have you tried another keyboard like Smart Keyboard.... https://market.android.com/details?id=net.cdeguet.smartkeyboardtrial&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm5ldC5jZGVndWV0LnNtYXJ0a2V5Ym9hcmR0cmlhbCJd

Maybe it will work better under the situation...

I have the same issue. One guy @ verizon suggested I go to my signature for my emails and remove any symbols from it. That means apostrophes, dash symbols, commas, periods. whatever is in there that is a symbol. I didn't have a way to test to see if that worked or not. It comes up random. Seems to happen whenever I send an email with an apostrophe in it to someone. I'm, don't, I'd, it's, they've, so on and so forth. I'm a little frustrated that I can't get any good answers.

Are they viewing the messages in a browser or something that would you the HTML format? When you look at your message does it show correctly? If so then I wouldn't blame the device as the issue...

I don't know what their settings are but its on their phones and sometimes on their pc's through email such as outlook. When I look at it....it is correct. I didn't quite understand the HTML format sentence.....could you reiterate that portion please? Thanks.

It's misinterpreted code for an apostrophe.

To get technical: it works in XML, but not in HTML (two different codings used for web pages) and people often use it mistakenly, not realising that it won't display properly.

Sources:

See The Curse of ' http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/07/01/…

Wildman,

I suspect the issue is with the Android v4 stock email client or stock keyboard, not with the Galaxy Nexus as a device. I've posted queries on the Google Android forums and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus Help site, but haven't had any replies from either site yet.

I haven't tried a different email client (K9 Mail perhaps?) or keyboard yet. Hopefully I'll have some time to test this weekend, but as rfeng also stated, the problem does NOT seem to be constant. When I look in my SENT folder (via the phone or my home PC), my emails look fine. but I have a couple friends who report that apostrophes are often, altho not always, replaced with the string '. I know it's an HTML tag, I wasn't aware it's also an XML tag. I also have other friends who've not mentioned any problems at all.

One of the ones who has a problem has a Hotmail acct and checks her email only through her IE web browser. I created my own hotmail acct and sent myself a test email and didn't see any string substitution. The other one who's told me of this issue uses both MS Outlook and the Yahoo web interface for her emails and reports seeing the behavior in both. Both friends have included my emails in their replies and sure enough, all apostrophes are replaced with ' ... yet when I look at my SENT folder ... ?

I posted here in hopes of finding someone else with the problem and maybe figuring out a common factor. I hope to hear from the Google Android folks eventually. But in the short term, I was also hoing that maybe someone knew of a way to configure the email client to send non-HTML (or maybe non-XML?) emails, because I've not figured out how to do that myself yet.

Thank you,

pat----

Pat,

So far you have given the most logical explanation I have heard so far. Even though its not the end run for an answer I think you are on the right track. The thing I noticed right off with Galaxy Nexus is that there aren't very many controls to the stock email installed on it. My other issue is no thread in the emails that I send out. I was wondering if anyone else has experienced that also.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24580

Just a follow up to anyone following this issue. Android Developers are looking into it and it sounds like they are thinking it has something to do with how they are formatting their SMTP request and it appears to be seen when the recipient is using a web email system (Hotmail, Yahoo, GMail).

pat----

Thank You for the update...

If you check the bottom of the thread at the link I posted a few messages above, you'll see that the Android developers have figured out what's wrong and fixed it. They said something about it being a "framework issue". Unfortunately, the email.apk isn't available as a standalone download and is only included with the full OS, so there's no time frame for the release of this fix.

Until then, I'm finding that K9 Mail is doing a great job for me.

pat----

Thanks Pat. I didn't think I was going crazy. ..........??? well......maybe I am but that is another story. :smileyhappy:

btw............I'm open to hearing what android ppl can do about the Deletion of the Frequently Called List on Galaxy Nexus.

CoyoteKid

I am having the same problem. It's embarrassing when I send clients emails and I see 'll. Thanks for sorting it out, Pat.