Disable all automatic text replacements

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Disable all automatic text replacements

Just now, I was writing some text in Safari, and I had some bullet-points that I designated (a), (b), ©, (d) etc.

As you can see, the computer thought it was smarter than me, and replaced the third bullet point with a copyright-symbol.

How can I, once and for all, disable these automatic replacements?!? An ideal solution would be shell-scriptable, so that I can easily disable this crap after a new installation without spending ages clicking around some preference panes…

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iMac i7 + MacBook + Mac mini G4 + iPod touch, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Jan 18, 2010 4:03 AM

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Answer 1

thomas_r.

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Jan 18, 2010 4:42 AM in response to Cohi

By default, Safari should not do this. Text replacements are turned off in all applications by default.

You can either go to System Preferences -> Language & Text and turn off any replacements you don't want, or you can turn off all of them in Safari by control-clicking in a text-editing field (like the one you type messages in on this forum) and unchecking the Text Replacement item in the Substitutions sub-menu.

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