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Euro Symbol Blocked in Thread Title

I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but I made a currency exchange thread recently and noticed that the Euro sign (€) was blocked in the thread title. It would let me enter the symbol but when I posted/edited the thread, the symbol wasn't there. AFAIK, the USD symbol works in thread titles so why wouldn't the Euro symbol?
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It happened when Omni blocked symbols from thread titles. It was suggested to be allowed and denied multiple times. Can't remember why

Edit: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?ti...id33127392
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(Apr 11, 2018 06:40 AM)Dragosthethird Wrote:  It happened when Omni blocked symbols from thread titles. It was suggested to be allowed and denied multiple times. Can't remember why

Edit: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?ti...id33127392

Hmm. That thread is from 2013... a lot has changed since then.

I'm all for banning special characters in usernames/threads as that can be abused (to the point of even impersonating other members), but I don't get how a EUR or GBP sign is a special character. Wouldn't the USD sign also be a "special character" in that case? It's on all EU keyboards, normally the 2 key (Alt Gr+2).
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Paste this into a post/title to have the Euro symbol appear:
€

Posting symbols using decimal encoding works
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(Apr 11, 2018 07:18 AM)Punisher Wrote:  Paste this into a post/title to have the Euro symbol appear:
€

Posting symbols using decimal encoding works

That actually worked, thanks.
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(Apr 11, 2018 07:18 AM)Punisher Wrote:  Paste this into a post/title to have the Euro symbol appear:
€

Posting symbols using decimal encoding works

Neat trick. :)

And yeah, I don't plan on adding anything to circumvent the thread titles as they are. But that trick gives me an idea. Hmm.....

EDIT: Altered the plugin so that it now replaces the unicode with the html decimal version. Works. :) You should now be able to use the € symbol in thread titles.
(Apr 11, 2018 11:22 AM)Omniscient Wrote:  Neat trick. :)

And yeah, I don't plan on adding anything to circumvent the thread titles as they are. But that trick gives me an idea. Hmm.....

EDIT: Altered the plugin so that it now replaces the unicode with the html decimal version. Works. :) You should now be able to use the € symbol in thread titles.

Nice, that seemed easy. Glad it helped

It's a convenient trick for sure :-)
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