Auto-correct breaks KB Shortcuts?

After starting to type my KB shortcut 'qs1' to enter my signature, I got the position shown in my screenshot, plus a frozen iPad which needed rebooting. Predictive Text was already disabled, but Auto-correct was still enabled. So I assume that it conflicts with KB Shortcuts.
I've now switched it off and am hoping that will fix it. Pity, as the feature did do a useful job sometimes.
What a screw up Apple have made of iOS 8.
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

The keyboard problems that you see here are in part due to the really bad forum software that Apple employs from Jive Software. A lot of these keyboard issues have been around since Apple rolled out the newest version of the ASC in mid June. Thsee issues have been reported over and over again in another are of the community where upper level users have the attention of the hosts and are able to communicate with them.
However, some of these keyboard issues have been made even worse in iOS 8. Autocorrect is a joke in iOS 8 on my iPad. I have talked to some people that claim that it works fine for them, and I have talked to a number of people that think that it is horrible like I do. Apple is aware of this and all we can do is hope that a fix is coming eventually...using the word soon here would be foolish since its been bad for 4 months already.
One problem that I do not have is the iPad crashing when I use keyboard shortcuts. I only use a few of them, because frankly, I can't remember them so its just easier for me to type everything out like I've done for over 40 years now.

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COPY N PASTE AS FOLLOWS:
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<rant>
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