Hi Tom,

Ah, you’re right. Does unchecking the smart quote settings (System
Preferences > Keyboard) help? Or as alternative you might also disable it
via Edit > Substitutions > Smart Quotes



Best regards,
Lars

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Tom Wilbur <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Lars —
>
> Thanks for the quick attention.  I’ve watched your video, and sure enough,
> if I do exactly what you do, I see the (correct) behavior you do.  However,
> after playing with a bunch of times here, what I see is that Gmail behaves
> differently if you *paste* text in the Subject field of the Filter dialog
> vs. if you *type* in the field.  In my testing, when I edit the Filter, the
> filter text is unchanged until I type the first (new) character in the
> field, at which point the first quotation-mark changes into a smart quote.
> But if I do exactly what you do and paste the text, then the
> character-substitution behavior doesn’t happen.
>
> Can you try again, and this time instead of pasting << |”new text” >>, try
> typing the characters.
>
> If that doesn’t help you repro it, let me know & I’ll record a video so
> you can see exactly what I’m doing.
>
> Thanks!
>
> — Tom
>
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Mailplane Support <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> Thanks for reporting it. Am I doing something differently in the attached
>> video?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Lars
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 4:29 AM, Tom Wilbur <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks --
>>>
>>> I've recently started having a problem with my Gmail filters that
>>> appears to only happen in Mailplane.  The problem I see is that upon
>>> editing a Filter that has quotes in one of the terms, any quotation marks
>>> (") are converted to the 'smart quotes' (”), which stops my Fiiter from
>>> working, presumably because the smart quotes are not treated by Gmail as
>>> quotation marks but as characters to be matched.
>>>
>>> So, for example, if I have this Filter (which works great):
>>>
>>> *from:(American Express) subject:("AutoPay Reminder"|statement|"payment
>>> was received")*
>>>
>>>
>>> And I edit it to add a new term at the end:
>>>
>>>
>>> *subject:("AutoPay Reminder"|statement|"payment was received"|"new
>>> text")*
>>>
>>>
>>> What gets saved is:
>>>
>>>
>>> *from:(American Express) subject:(“AutoPay Reminder”|statement|”payment
>>> was received”|”new text”)*
>>>
>>>
>>> Which no longer matches the emails that the original filter did.
>>>
>>>
>>> I've also found that in Mailplane, I'm unable to replace the smart
>>> quotes with normal quotation marks (upon saving they all get converted to
>>> the smart quotes again).
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm running Mailplane 3.5.5 (2019) on OS X 10.11.2 (15C50).  I've also
>>> seen this behavior on my work Mac that's running Yosemite.
>>>
>>>
>>> This behavior (the conversion-on-save) does not happen in Chrome 
>>> (47.0.2526.80)
>>> nor in Safari (9.0.2 (11601.3.9)).
>>>
>>>
>>> The workaround is to only edit Filters with quotation marks in any field
>>> using Gmail on Chrome, and if I forget and do it in Mailplane, to correct
>>> it also in Chrome.
>>>
>>>
>>> Let me know if you would like any additional information.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Tom
>>>
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