Unchecking Edit > Substitutions > Smart Quotes solves the problem for me. I'll go make that (de)selection on my various Mailplane installs.
Thanks for your help! — Tom On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Mailplane Support <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "mailplaneapp" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mailplaneapp/1P9Aip63EeM/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thomas W. Wilbur >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "mailplaneapp" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mailplaneapp/1P9Aip63EeM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Thomas W. 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