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25 Oct 2012, 7:30 pm

I want to put a Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk in my signature. It works just fine in the body of a post:

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Unfortunately, in the signature it gets escaped to its HTML code: & #10043; I suspect it's a general problem with HTML escape codes.

Also, below the signature box in Edit Profile it says "Type your signature with HTML coding" - but HTML is escaped, so that's not really good advice. :)

It would be nice to allow hyperlinks in signatures, too. I can guess why BBCode would have been disabled (some people might get carried away with it), but links would be nice - at least links within WP.


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25 Oct 2012, 7:34 pm

Hmm ... I'm able to put CHR$(248) in my sig line (The degree symbol at the end) ... maybe it only allows regular ASCII characters ... ?


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25 Oct 2012, 8:37 pm

I played around with this a little more. Looks like my browser automatically encodes the character to & #10043; when submitting the form and WP then never decodes it when displaying the signature. Even if I manually edit the HTTP request and send the Unicode character (either raw or percent-encoded) it doesn't get displayed properly. I get a few extended ASCII characters instead - probably each byte being interpreted as a separate character.