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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!

€

€

y

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.

(D-oh! I probably should have mentioned.for people who don't know HTML... You have to have &lt;B&gt;Bold <b>ended</b> with &lt;/B&gt; to end the bold. Otherwise, you're whole post (and possibly everyone elses posts afterwards?) becomes bold? Hmmm... That might not be so good for fodors... (Obviously ditto for each type of tag (bold, underline, etc)) <b><i>(I'm not closing this italic <u>or</u> bold tag, let's see if it makes everything from now on bold and italic.)</i></b>

(I guess this will test if this becomes bold and italic, since I didn't close the tags above.) But, in other news, it's curious that the mac doesn't handle &euro; as &amp;euro;, but, it <b>still</b> handles your typing it in directly through the keyboard.

&euro;

I JUST HAD TO TRY IT...

ALt Gr with 4 on my keyboard.

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Muck

&euro;

Thanks Bozo! We have an ancient billing system at work, which has refused to accept any previous attempts at displaying a euro sign. I'll try this out on Monday morning.

I wonder if our clients would appreciate &hearts; signs on their bills too!

&euro;

just testing

That's ace. I'm not sure if I want to know the answer to this, but can someone tell me why, when I type a Euro sign as intended by this pc, and it appears as a euro sign in the text here whilst I'm typing, it turns into a y when I post it?

&euro;

my mac (G4, system 10.2.6) <b>does</b> handle it.

Sheila,

No, this is ace -

&spades;

(Getting too clever for my own good now!)

&euro;

Thanks Bozo/Betsy!

<font color="#870fdb">Testing</font>

Thanks I'm a little slow but I now understand why this is news. So I also say thanks.

&euro;

I want to buy a &euro; but my &hearts; isn't in it...shall I call a &spades; a &spades; ? I can buy them for a &pound;

For those who aren't seeing some of the symbols referenced and described.... it's most likely because your browser software doesn't support it. Older versions of MS IE Explorer are different than newer ones, Netscape is also different and AOL's version of the Netscape browser is yet another wrinkle.

e,; &euro;

Bozo, you're amazing! Headed out for a little run and then back to try bold, italic, and colors! Wow!

&euro;

just another test

Will it do URL references? Let's see...
Link?

No.