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Thanks to Bozo the Clown, who figured it out, we can now post the Euro! Type: € (note lowercase e, the ; and no spaces).

Let's try that again. I typed it correctly and it posted the Euro sign (duh).

Here's how to do it: Type an ampersand ( & ), then the word euro (lowercase) and then a semicolon. No spaces.

Also discovered by Bozo and yet untried by me, a heart. Here goes: ♥
Also testing an alternative: &heart;

Well, back to the drawing board for the heart! Does anyone else see the message above in two different fonts?

I see the heart and it spelled out. &heart;

Betsy, I see the ♥ but not the &heart; (It _has_ to be ♥ As to why the semi-colons... That's part of the HTML standard as I understand it... All that's changed now, is that fodors isn't changing &'s to &'s (Meaning they aren't entity encoding the amps _if_ they follow a certain pattern.)

Here's more info:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp

That's probably more helpful than the one I posted before...

One thing I kind of don't like is how in the edit, ' (single quotes) are being converted to ''s upon edit. It displays fine... Maybe there's nothing they can do about that... I wonder.

Betsy, great, how did you make the heart? € &heart ??

£ áñ₧b╚╕╚xyä|}~⌂Çü&ea cute;âäåçêë&egr ave;ï

You've had too much catnip!!!!

☺ ☻

hmm... smiley faces get distorted.
They look good in preview.

☺ ☻ yy

Somebody should get a ™ on this stuff!

£ØV€ IT!

Sorry but this was posted months ago I think by REX

You're right, Bob. It was posted months ago, but when Fodors did all the upgrades a few weeks ago, the capacity to do the € was lost. Bozo figured out how to do it again. Let's rejoice!

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Just testing to see if it works on a Mac . . .

What do others see on my above post?

I see a euro sign and a y below it.

I got the euro sign by typing opt-shift-2 and the y by typing & euro ; (without the spaces)

Does it make a difference if you enter/read on a Mac or on a PC?

<font color="#0000ff">Possibly.</font> (It <i>might</i> make a difference <u>if</u> you're on a Mac. But, <b>if</b> you aren't... It looks like there is some limited HTML support that they've added. It's rather... finicky. For instance you can't do a &lt;FONT SIZE=&quot;5&quot;&gt;font and make an <b>enormous</b> font. But, OTOH, perhaps that is by design. So far, looks like you can do <b>Bold (&lt;B&gt; )</b>, <u>Underline (&lt;U&gt; )</u>, <i>Italic (&lt;I&gt; )</i>, <s>Strikethrough (&lt;S&gt; )</s>, and <font color="#007f00">Font colors (&lt;FONT COLOR=&quot;#{hexcolor}&quot;&gt; )</font> (Where font color is something like what's in here: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/...e/color_codes/
)

I'm sure there are others. But... It's pretty finicky. If it doesn't like <b>anything</b> it then escapes all the &lt;'s and &gt;'s, and it just appears as raw HTML.

I guess, so I can make <font color="#ff0000">red &hearts;s...</font>

I can see the colors and the strike through - but I don't see hearts in any of the posts.