How to work around the smileys
 

Over in another thread, Momliz tried to post a URL that contained a colon followed by a P. The Fodor's script replaced the colon P with a smiley, with this result:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portail:Paris

Until Fodor's figure out that they should exempt URLs from the "smily-scan" process, we will need a work-around. And here it is:

After you've composed your deathless prose, click <i>Preview My Message</i> below the Reply box, and see if any characters got smileyficated. If not, go ahead and post.

Otherwise, note the character that's causing the smiley, go to this page

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

and look up the &quot;URL-encode&quot; character. In this case, it was the colon, which is encoded as <b>%3a</b>. Substitute the encoded character in the original URL, and it should work, like this:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portail%3aParis

The link looks funny (although not as funny as :P) - but the main thing is, it works!

Are you saying you don't like that little guy laughing at you for using wikipedia? :-p

Hi,

We're working on a fix for this. It would be helpful if people could add to this thread other examples of the same kind of problem, if others have come up.

Thanks,
Mark
Fodor's

That was quick. No how about a choice of searching on thread headers only?

That was quick. Now how about a choice of searching on thread headers only?

If you post a dollar sign followed by a parenthese, it makes a funny smiley face.
Ex. (If you aren't worried about $)

:d - :'nospace'd

:&amp; - :'nospace'&amp;

Some smileys will probably always crop up in posts - all it takes is a slip of the finger, no previewing and no chance to edit posts.

Here - like this:
<b>
:d :d

:&amp; :&amp;
</b>

It would be a LOT better if we could just edit our posts!!!!!

Robespierre?

Doesn't that mean I would have to select the : and the d and bold them but not the rest of my sentence?

If I type (as part of a sentence) &quot;therefore:don't&quot; with no space between the 'therefore:' and 'don't' - I will get a smiley in the middle of my words without knowing - unless I preview :-)

No. I was just showing that if you typed &quot;therefore:don't&quot; a certain way, it wouldn't be smileyficated.

smileyficated :-)

I like that!

To Tim and Liz--you can edit your post--albeit by having to take an extra step- -- by clicking &quot;PREVIEW MY REPLY&quot; which will show you your post and below that previewed version will be the option &quot;EDIT&quot;. Hope that helps...:)

thanks, I know that. I still think there should be an edit function though.

It would be a great asset if we could have the option to edit our own posts after the fact, not just by the preview.