Need to know what these are
Please can someone tell me what the dots signify?
Is there any way that I can remove them without manually going through and deleting them?
Posted Aug 5, 2020, 10:26 PM UTC
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Did you mean to post this here? Where did you find this code?
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I did... seeing those dots are represented in Bear. Hoping that a developer at Bear can tell me what those dots mean, because pasting into other editors , you won’t see the dots and they mess with the build in Eclipse. Copied and pasted from a PDF.
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Totally misunderstood your post and didn’t see the tiny dots under the letters which you’re referring to - deleted another comment of mine here which didn’t answer your question.
As someone else said, try pasting as plain text, but yeah copying from a PDF can often be quite hit-and-miss in all apps, not just Bear.
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I should have specified how tiny they were!
Bear has actually saved me from this type of problem before. Pasting as plain text is what worked last time. This time those dots are there with the "Paste As Plain Text" option.
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The text above is a screenshot of code in Bear.
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Have you copied and pasted it into Bear?
I’ve had this before but with underscores.
I think it’s a copy and paste issue. But I can’t work out if it’s Bear or what I’m copying from.
If I click share and then copy (on iOS) it pastes as plain text and removes any strange characters.
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Okay, thanks for your response... I will try the iOS trick but for now I got the code to work. Appreciate the help.
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Hi, this is quite unusual. The small dots here may be special Unicode characters and you can easily replace them with nothing, but I'd like to know where (website, app, ...) you copied this code from and eventually try to simulate this issue.
I don't work with code so much these days...
But, as a general rule of thumb, I keep a BBEdit window or TextEdit window in plain-text format around and typically use it as a 'cleaner' when copying and pasting things between apps or especially web and apps.