Stop Converting Text!

This is another major annoyance, particularly the letter "U" (unless you put it in quotes like that) will get auto converted to "you". This is SO annoying, when so many issues in philately refer to letters in issues and if you try to say the "U" in United, it gets converted to the you in United.
Why do this? It doesn't help postings at all, and makes it really frustrating when you enter it 2 or 3 times and then realize the system is converting the text. This is 1980 thinking... and it doesn't work. I now of NO other forum that does this (of any type, not just philatelic).

u, U, u. Works OK on my end.

Are you syoure this isn't the machine , rather than the site?

I've also seen this. It appears to convert it only when it's in the middle of a sentence.

u is a lowercase letter.
U is a capital letter.
This is the lowercase letter u.
This is the uppercase letter U.
The lowercase letter you is in the middle.
The capital letter you is in the middle.

The forum does convert "u" to "you" in some contexts. Here's an example of one automatic conversion: The you in Ukraine is capitalized. Quotation marks (as ClassicPhilatelist noted) or italic tags will block the conversion: The "u" in Ukraine is capitalized. The u in Ukraine is capitalized.

Partime's and PostmasterGS's examples seem to indicate that the conversion only happens when the letter you is between spaces. (See what happened there?)

See these crazy variations make it even more annoying. I didn't know that if I put it at the end or start of the sentence it doesn't convert. That seems an even more arbitrary thing to do. It's particularly annoying because it's not "auto-correct", where you see the conversion happen, it doesn't take place until the text is committed (submitted). Otherwise you have to remember to put "" around it for it to stand, and I see it in LOTS of posts besides my own. Makes it really confusing particularly to non-native speakers...
The best thing to do: STOP the practice! Assume that if we type "U" we mean "U" not "YOU".

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Q/ Are the folks with the auto-correct problems all using smart phones?

The only site-based auto-formatting that I've seen, and that annoys me, is the reduction of acronyms that were traditionally all caps to mixed case.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

If you hate it here so much you are free to find somewhere else or start your own forum. Sounds like you have never run a forum in your life and just like to nitpick. Hell, one thing you nitpicked about was even right in front of you the entire time.