ShiftingSkies
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Currently in a class and going through a lot of vocab daily. I've been using ChatGPT to format my vocab lists for use in Pleco, and for a while it worked fine. However, for the past week or two, every time I've done this, a few of the flashcards have turned out as shown in the screenshot. When testing, the flashcard appears exactly like it does in the screenshot (including the pinyin and the definition in that bizarre text) when it should just show the characters, and doesn't change when you hit the "Reveal Entire Card" button. It's just the same both times.
When this started happening, I asked ChatGPT many, many questions about the way it's formatting the cards, if there are any special or hidden characters, I've had it reformat the lists completely from scratch, specifying there should be absolutely zero extra formatting outside from the basic Pleco format, remade them repeatedly, etc., and it turns out the same way every time, on the same flashcards. I'm 99.99% sure it's the AI doing some weird formatting or something, but I can't identify the problem for the life of me.
I also suspect it could be related to the use of the Chinese/English keyboard in Windows, as sometimes when you have the Chinese keyboard activated but switch to English input mode, the input will wig out and start typing in that font with the exaggerated spacing and everything. I do use that keyboard mode pretty frequently, but I think if that was the problem, the affected flashcards would be more random as I'm not just using the keyboard for specific flashcards (if that explanation makes sense).
I'm afraid I'm going to have to start formatting my cards manually to avoid this error, which is going to create a time sink I'd really like to avoid. Has anyone seen this happen before? I've been using Pleco for 13 years and I've never seen it. I've attached the .txt file associated with the screenshot below in case anyone wants to look at it. Thanks in advance.
When this started happening, I asked ChatGPT many, many questions about the way it's formatting the cards, if there are any special or hidden characters, I've had it reformat the lists completely from scratch, specifying there should be absolutely zero extra formatting outside from the basic Pleco format, remade them repeatedly, etc., and it turns out the same way every time, on the same flashcards. I'm 99.99% sure it's the AI doing some weird formatting or something, but I can't identify the problem for the life of me.
I also suspect it could be related to the use of the Chinese/English keyboard in Windows, as sometimes when you have the Chinese keyboard activated but switch to English input mode, the input will wig out and start typing in that font with the exaggerated spacing and everything. I do use that keyboard mode pretty frequently, but I think if that was the problem, the affected flashcards would be more random as I'm not just using the keyboard for specific flashcards (if that explanation makes sense).
I'm afraid I'm going to have to start formatting my cards manually to avoid this error, which is going to create a time sink I'd really like to avoid. Has anyone seen this happen before? I've been using Pleco for 13 years and I've never seen it. I've attached the .txt file associated with the screenshot below in case anyone wants to look at it. Thanks in advance.
