You're welcome. That will be ƒ5, please.

For those on a glamorous Mac, all you have to do is click Edit→Special Characters→Character Palette and this lovely box appears with any symbol imaginable for you to click on and automatically insert. With this feature, it's so easy to shop in £, ¥, € or $.

In celebration of Poker Olympics, anyone up for a little card play?

♠ ♣ ♥ ♦

<b>NYCFS -</b>

For those on a glorious Mac, there is a good chance that your Character Palette codes will display as gibberish on many browsers.

For those on a clunky WinTel, there is a good chance that your Character Map codes will display as gibberish on many browsers.

Have you ever seen something on line that had strange characters where well-defined ones should go? Things like &quot;let's get together&quot; rendered as &quot;let&eth;s get together&quot;? That type of thing is the result of someone using a code set local to his/her environment and expecting the rest of the world to figure it out.

The only way to be sure that any browser will accurately display the special characters you type is to use the escape sequences that are HTML standard.

&amp;pound &pound;
&amp;euro &euro;
nope, that doesn't work.
&euro; )alt-0128) that works.

Thanks! None of these shortcuts worked for me in Word, so I went to Insert&gt;Symbol. It indicated the shortcut, which is: Alt+Ctrl+E.

Doesn't work for the forum, though. I have a wireless keyboard from Microsoft that is a bit odd. The &amp;euro and then semicolon does work - see?! &euro;

I am going to ignore these posts in the future. I've tried before and just spent about half an hour trying all of these. No matter what I do on my one year old gateway laptop on Windows XP, none of the things anyone mentions works.
If I hold down the Alt. key and hit numbers, it makes that hollow knocking sound, and when I release there is nothing there. When I type in &amp;euro, I get just that -- &amp;euro. Or if I add the semicolon, guess what I get --&euro; neat, huh.

So to avoid total frustration on my part, folks get used to my saying 45E.

WOW, that was amazing. Although it didn't change on my screen, when I posted, I see the &euro; came out as the correct symbol. Wonder if it will do it again? Right now as I look at this post, the symbol isn't there.

Robespierre, I knew that. I like other people to try and figure things out on their own. It's a good way to learn.

At least Travel Talk offers Preview.

I've been sitting here trying to figure out how to get the spade, club, heart, and diamond symbols, and it's driving me crazy!

I have an iMac, so as you said, NYCFS, I can go to the character palette, and find those characters, but when I insert them, they come out like this:
? &szlig; &copy; &reg;

If I copy the symbols in your post and paste them, they come out like this:
&Uuml;&pound; &Uuml;? &Uuml;? &Uuml;?

This is all on Internet Explorer. On Netscape, the card suit symbols don't even show up in your post- they're just horizontal and vertical lines.

Help!

<b>marcy_</b> - Try this:

&amp;hearts;
&amp;spades;
&amp;diams;
&amp;clubs;

&spades; <font color="red">&hearts;</font> &clubs;

Fantastic! For some reason, though, it doesn't work for diamonds.

I can't believe how much time I've wasted on this!

I take that back: It does work for diamonds!
&spades; <font color="red">&hearts;</font> &clubs; <font color="red">&diams;</font>

&hearts; Cool!

OK...so why isn't my heart <i>red</i>?

you have to put &lt; red &gt; preceding it, and &lt;/ red&gt; folowing it. (no spaces)

If you just want a heart, it's easier to use
(( L )) once again, no spaces.

I do love a smart girl and on this thread we have more than one. Congratulations, code writers!

Hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution, tens of billions of dollars developing computers and the internet and we get this thread.

<font color="red">NYCFS, it's not always about cognitive ability; sometimes it's about experience.</font>

Ah, but sometimes the mastery of the little things in life gives us so much satisfaction!