# "If you can read this, the double-quotes bug is DEAD!"

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**Created:** [October 10, 2001, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-read-this-the-double-quotes-bug-is-dead/86459 "2001-10-10T00:33:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-read-this-the-double-quotes-bug-is-dead/86459/1 "2001-10-10T00:33:52Z")

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Preview no longer erases double quotes and everything following them in the subject!

Oh frabjous day!

Ding, dong, the bug is dead!

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-read-this-the-double-quotes-bug-is-dead/86459/2 "2001-10-10T00:43:15Z")

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Having been victimized recently, I thank…who?

Jerry?

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-read-this-the-double-quotes-bug-is-dead/86459/3 "2001-10-10T21:58:17Z")

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The title above is  
We’ll just see about “that”

Just a thorough test. You see, there was always an exception to the quote bug, in that it could never result in an untitled thread. Your title is enclosed entirely in quotes, so it would be naturally immune, anyway.

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-can-read-this-the-double-quotes-bug-is-dead/86459/4 "2001-10-11T22:35:28Z")

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Very interesting, Chronos. I wasn’t aware of that, but my initial tests only had part of the subject in quotes. I thought this subject was better than my first idea:

> [@](#):
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> Is the double-quotes bug dead? “YES!”