Why do symbols display correctly in the Shout Box, Post Text Area and Preview Post but not in the actual post?

Alt + 1 = ☺
Alt + 2 = ☻
Alt + 3 = ♥
Alt + 4 = ♦
Alt + 5 = ♣
Alt + 6 = ♠
Alt + 7 = •
Alt + 8 = ◘
Alt + 9 = ○
Alt + 10 = ◙
Alt + 11 = ♂
Alt + 12 = ♀
Alt + 13 = ♪
Alt + 14 = ♫
Alt + 15 = ☼
Alt + 16 = ►
Alt + 17 = ◄
Alt + 18 = ↕
Alt + 19 = ‼
Alt + 20 = ¶
Alt + 21 = §
Alt + 22 = ▬
Alt + 23 = ↨
Alt + 24 = ↑
Alt + 25 = ↓
Alt + 26 = →
Alt + 27 = ←
Alt + 28 = ∟
Alt + 29 = ↔
Alt + 30 = ▲
Alt + 31 = ▼

That's got to do with the standard iso-8859-1 encoding.

Rob

actually, if you view the source of the page you'll see that the UBB is converting the & to:


So it's not the charset

bbcode.inc.php

:sniff: I'm sad, I want my forums unb0rked

just use an older version of bbcode.inc.php for now

<snicker> how old is the question ... Time to whip out my... Beyond Compare

well, 7.5 is actually not too bad..