T9 quirk (beware! this is by far the least interesting thread on this forum!)

spiffyjiff · #1 (**permalink**) 12-17-2008, 06:23 PM

ok, fine, i'm a dork and have a stupid question about a T9 quirk. in certain apps (SMS, email, etc) T9 will capitalize the first letter of a word no matter that i have the "capitalize first letter of sentence" UNCHECKED" (yes, just thought i'd mention that before you all chime in and call me an idiot!). but in other certain apps, it WILL obey this rule and not capitalize.

quirk with the diamond??

(see? told you this thread was uninteresting and worthless...but it just bugs me)

thanks all!

**tobeychris** · #2 (**permalink**) 12-17-2008, 06:28 PM

Are those words the first in a sentence?

**InvincibleLiving** · #3 (**permalink**) 12-17-2008, 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spiffyjiff

ok, fine, i'm a dork and have a stupid question about a T9 quirk. in certain apps (SMS, email, etc) T9 will capitalize the first letter of a word no matter that i have the "capitalize first letter of sentence" UNCHECKED" (yes, just thought i'd mention that before you all chime in and call me an idiot!). but in other certain apps, it WILL obey this rule and not capitalize.

quirk with the diamond??

(see? told you this thread was uninteresting and worthless...but it just bugs me)

thanks all!

my best guess is that it's pulling words from your dictionary the way the were entered? so if you put in Obama with the 'O' capitalized, it will always autocomplete the word the same way it was originally entered? I'm stabbing in the dark like OJ on this one, but like I said that's my best guess...

spiffyjiff · #4 (**permalink**) 12-17-2008, 06:39 PM

tobeychris, yep, sorry - just the 1st letter of each sentence. still...annoying given that it has an option to turn it off.

vvtc · #5 (**permalink**) 01-25-2009, 10:51 PM

*bump*

anyone figure out a way to not have it autocaptitalize yet?

drunkdavid69 · #6 (**permalink**) 01-25-2009, 11:54 PM

I think that's not the T9, Microsoft choosing to capitalize for you. Just a feature of most of their heavy text-input apps. And sometimes it gets to me too. Some words you just DON'T want capitalized. Only way I've found to beat it is to type a letter then space then the word you actually want then go back and delete the gibberish letter and space. It doesn't annoy me so much that I'd actually bother going to look for a "fix" for it as 9 times out of ten, I DO want the first bit capitalized. Anyway, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is Microsoft or any other software designer who decides to include this feature, not your T9.

Thanks,
David