Text replacement issues

[shadocat08]

Long story short, I cannot use the 'e' button on my macbook pro at the moment, so I configured my tilde to be a shortcut for that button. I had to update my laptop for work, so now I am running 10.13.6. With this update, my shortcut now automatically becomes capital (E). This is obviously not very helpful, most of the time I use that letter in the lowercase. The only workaround I've found so far is to replace with ' e' (that is, space e) which works but also slows down my workflow considerably as I have to go remove all spaces. Anyone know what to do?

 

[jpn]

i dont know the reason why Text Replacement only (and arbitrarily) makes that small case e into a capital E.

the solution you thought of is quite clever.

i tried it on my system.
at first i was using / (backslash) to be replaced with lowercase e. but it always ends up with the replacement made into a capital E as you encountered.
but then i tried lowercase z being replaced with lowercase e. and it works. it stays lowercase.
i dont know the reason why the choice of shortcut originating character makes any difference. possibly its hard coated that way for programmers.

 

[shadocat08]

Interesting. Unfortunately, the letter replacement only seems to work on its own and not in a word, ie z changes to e but 'przsznt' stays just like that. Frustrating.