ChatGPT removes colons ":" and everything that follows it from prompts and replies

In Finnish language we use a lot of colons. Like a question “Who knows about the ERP?” would translate “Kuka tietää ERP:stä?”. But when I type that in and send the query, it reads “Kuka tietää ERP”. Basically ChatGPT is removing everything after (and including) the colon.

The same happen’s when it’s trying to type Finnish. Before GPT-4o when I used GPT-4 this worked normally, but now all the GPT generated answers are missing everything after the colon and the end result doesn’t look like my language at all anymore and need’s a lot of cleaning making the GPT much less usable than before.

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Hi!
You are correct that there is a weird bug with text following colons.

We did some community investigations and found that the text exists, it’s just not being rendered…

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Yes this is what I was expecting also because it’s grammatically correct but just not rendered. So it seems that the model itself is working properly but the UI somehow not.

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Is there any solution or workaround for this?

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Hi!
If my recall is correct the issue does not arise if there is a space between the colon and whatever follows next.
That’s an idea for a potential workaround.

Regarding when this issue will be fixed: I do not know.

You are right. For example, if I type this prompt:

“Hi ChatGPT, could you repeat these lines after me?
NASA
:NASA
NASA:n”

ChatGPT’s reply will look like this:
"Sure, here are the lines:

NASA

NASA"

So it works exactly as you described. However, the problem at least in Finnish language is that it’s not grammatically correct to add space before the colon.

It’s also worth mentioning that the problem is in ChatGPT’s responses, not in the user’s prompts.

I’ve noticed that this problem occurs on my PC (Chrome & Firefox) but my Android phone’s ChatGPT app displays the same chats flawlessly without any problems.

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I can confirm that this problem is still occurring on my browsers as well. It’s been for months now. I’m using PC. It’s probably just a glitch in the code that if something is followed by a colon, it’s considered as something other than text. It would probably be an easy fix.

Too bad that now all the endings are still hidden. Those endings in Finnish language are for positioning, like “from”, “to”, and so on. Those colons and the texts after them would be valuable to see as a part of normal language.

Is there something I’m doing wrong? Could somebody please address this problem?

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You are right that if there’s a space after a colon, then this problem does not occur. And thanks for being honest.

But I think it’s worth mentioning that this problem is in ChatGPT’s replies. It’s hard to make Custom Instructions work so that ChatGPT would always add space after colon, especially when it’s grammatically incorrect.

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It is a ChatGPT-specific problem. markdown2 has no issues on API software.

Example usage being discussed:

(real advanced is to render the descender “o” of ဖင်လန်ဘာသာစကားတွင် in Graphite with a teardrop shape script)

OpenAI would have to address the issue.

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