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stormiecub:
Every time I try to put a typographical bullet in one of my posts, it cuts the rest of the post. I can use HTML to accomplish this in posts, but it isn't working in signatures, which is currently where I'm struggling. This is a role playing board and the use of the bullets in the signatures is one of the ways that the board denotes the different member groups.

I have a previous version of the site where the bullets worked just fine so I don't know what's happened or if there's been some kind of an update in the meantime. I would just like to be able to use them in signatures. Thanks!

Shambles:
Do you have a limit on signature length that's maybe truncating the [/list] tag?

stormiecub:
I'm not using the list tag. I don't know I could use it to achieve the effect that I'm going for, but I'd thought of giving it a try. Unfortunately I want the bullets in a horizontal line instead of in a vertical line. Otherwise, that would be an option.

What I would like is to be able to simply copy a bullet into the text, like this •

If I can't do that, I'd like to be able to use the
--- Code: ---[html]
--- End code ---
tag in order to put the • code into the signature and achieve the same effect. The html BBC works just fine in posts but it doesn't work in signatures.

ETA: Copying and pasting the bullet is working here, so why wouldn't it work on my site? Something in the language files?

MrPhil:
Is your site using UTF-8 for both the page display and the database? That bullet code is not found in Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1). Did you cut and paste in the binary (hard coded) bullet character from a Word document? If so, that's your problem -- your browser is reading it as a control code, which messes up your text. Some, but not all, browsers use CP-1252 (Word's encoding) when the page specifies Latin-1. UTF-8 encoding will usually choke on a Word bullet.

If you are not the administrator, you can't use the  BBCode. I'm not sure if it works in signatures, anyway. If the & bull; is being disabled (& becomes &), have you tried the numeric form: &# 8226;?

& bull; => •
& #8226; => •

This forum is UTF-8, by the way.

stormiecub:
No I'm really confused. Right now it feels like I'm looking at an entirely different version of the software, even though it's the same, and I'm getting frustrated.

How do I know which language files I have installed? I know that somewhere in here I should be seeing UTF, but I'm not seeing it anywhere and am getting frustrated.

I can copy and paste into a post on this site. I can copy and paste into my previous SMF site running the same version of the software on the same server, but I can't make it work on the new site, which is why I'm confused.

& bull; is working in posts but not in signatures. & #8226; does work in the signatures, but it seems as though there should be an easier way, since the easy way worked on the previous forum. Any suggestions?

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