掲示板 Forums - Missing underscores in grammar quiz

Hello,

Just a minor thing, but thought you would want to be aware.

Recently, the underscores disappeared from my multiple choice grammar questions. Or maybe they're still there, but now invisible.

This means that when I'm choosing an expression which fits the sentence, I'm not necessarily sure where where within the sentence that it is supposed to go.

I'm giving an example in the screenshot below. In this case, we can tell that the expression will be inserted between る and the 、punctuation. There's not really a problem with this question. I know that the expression is supposed to be inserted into the sentence between those two.

However, with other questions, the insertion point is sometimes harder to identify. This is because sometimes it occurs to the left or right of text, with no text or gramma on the far side to bound it.

Until very recently, there used to be underscores there (or some marker like that) to make the insertion point clearer.

The sentence jumble questions are fine. It's only the regular multiple choice questions that are affected (as far as I'm aware).

This change happened approximately four days ago.

I have the same problem when I used the website website on various different desktop computers, although the underscores are still present and correct on the Android app.

Thank you for this information! Well done for going so far as to capture the same questions on different browsers.

Personally I have had this problem on Brave browser and Chrome browser.

But, as you say, it doesn't always occur!

Speaking to this inconsistency, I just did a quiz where some underscores were showing and others weren't within the same question! 🤯 It's one of those particle-list questions where you have to select from なり、なり or とも、とも etc. So there are two different insertion points. Only one is showing the underscores.

In other questions, some of them displayed the underscores correctly, while others didn't.

Also- if you're on a desktop browser, does playing with the width of the window change anything?

I tried swapping them out for the Japanese "underscore", instead of dealing with underlining as a font effect.

It has been okay for me this afternoon. Maybe it is fixed (but soon to tell).

Earlier this morning, I tried copying and pasting the characters. They are different widths.

The ones that didn't display are thinner. Apparently they are "Space character (specifically, the U+0020 Space in Unicode)."

The ones that correctly displayed underscores are thicker. Apparently they are Fullwidth Low Line (Unicode code point U+FF3F).

It seems that are different characters being used on the web page.

But to reiterate, it has been okay this afternoon, so マイコー　maybe you have fixed it! I will post back after trying more.

Just to corroborate, I'm also seeing the thinner lines show up after previously seeing blanks.

Glad it has improved!