Here's how to do it: Type an ampersand ( & ), then the word euro (lowercase) and then a semicolon. No spaces.
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I haven't taken a hard look at this, but one reason that the meta-characters, such as Euro symbols, are not working is that Fodor's now dynamically generates their forum content using java servlet pages (thus the .jsp extension on the post reply form). Meta-characters work with PHP files, which I use, but it is possible they are not properly interpreted by JSP files. Just a thought.

A correction. In my last post I meant to write unicode instead of meta-character.

Gotta try.

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Just did a bit of internet browsing on this subject, and there are a lot of technical forum posts from software developers complaining that JSP forms do not properly interpret unicode characters. There are workarounds, but they require that the system administrator add a few system configurations.

OK, now I'm a curious Mac person. €

<font color=red>&euro;

<font color=green><i>I guess you don't have to put end tags on.</i></font></font>

Gotta try too!

&euro; ;)

How do I make that pound sign???
Please!!!

&pound;

ampersand+pound+;

no spaces

Sorry, no plus signs either

&amp; pound ; (no spaces)

&amp;#+

%# &amp;# guess not?

When I viewed this thread from my computer at work, none of the special characters were resolved. At home, however all the characters (e.g., &euro;, etc.) look fine.

My office computer is a UNIX machine with Netscape, and my home machine is a Windows machine with Internet Explorer. This suggests that either the operating system (UNIX vs Windows) or the browser (Netscape vs IE) makes the difference.

Thanks, My problem must be windows IE.
tho I can do &euro; with alt+ctrl+5 together.

Mimi, are you typing the ampersand, immediately followed by the word &quot;pound&quot; (no quotes), immediately followed by a colon?

&pound; yes, WAAAaaaaaaa!!!!!
Thank you for trying to help me, Sue
Good morning, dark, grey, rain coming.

LOL, Mimi. It's definitely the little things in life that count, right? ;;)

&pound; Strange Cigalechante...

I'm able to cut and paste your Pound character, AND use it as &amp; pound ; (like so: &pound;)...

Unfortunately, I don't know the key sequence to use to type a &pound; using Windows since I use Linux...

I found this interesting article on the subject:
http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=113

I especially like this quote:
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The European &quot;government&quot; (ha ha) decided that the new currency should get its own currency symbol, and, in order to make life as difficult as possible for everyone they decided to design a completely new character, a sort of captical E on steroids (see picture).

This decision immediately sent a shiver through the spines of everyone with more than half a brain and some knowledge of computer systems

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