Re: This has happened to me for years
Google (as well as the infamous mod_spell) ignores two basic rules of good software development:
1. Never fix user input!
2. If the customer insists on breaking the first rule, then let the software inform the user about the fix and let the user confirm the fix!
Fixing user input silently is very wrong. There are so many reasons for wrong user input: Typos, wrong information, fraud etc. If a software fixes it without informing the user, the user has no chance to find out hat something is wrong.
I don't use Gmail, so I was quite surprised that they do such a stupid thing. I thought in 2018 every software engineer should have learned that at university...
BR
littlesmith
Biting the hand that feeds IT
