Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021

Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by nerdponx on Saturday June 19, 2021 @11:23AM (#27561265)

This sounds like something out of a surrealist novel.

> consistently use umlauts in place of quotation marks and acute accent marks in place of apostrophes

US-International keyboard layout, maybe. Maybe the student doesn't know what umlauts and acute accents are, so maybe they think they're valid equivalents to " and '.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by rjsw on Saturday June 19, 2021 @11:43AM (#27561468)

Is that down to the pupil ?

Sounds like another MacOS "why not use random unicode characters that look similar to the one you really want" feature to me.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by blamazon on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:08PM (#27565376)

Perhaps copying from another source, creating a wacky encoding error?

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by bdowling on Sunday June 20, 2021 @12:23AM (#27567056)

I was confused when I read this because reader mode on Safari converted the umlauts and acutes into quotation marks and apostrophes.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by fzimmermann89 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @11:59AM (#27561614)

or the text went through latex at some point, which can easily lead to a"->ä.

letter+quotation mark is a common way to write umlauts...

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