TT GOES LATIN!

Right. Allowing html is asking for abuse.

It does allow for colors though

And for really irritating stuff

(let's see if that works)

OK, at least blinking and moving text are not allowed.

Gotta try this semicolon trick. If it works, it's a bunch easier than nutrax's HTML coding:.

ñ; á; é; í; ó; ú; ü; ¿; ¡; ñ; —; «; »;

If this works, it's at least even a tad easier than even using the Alt ascii code that you poor guys with English keyboards have to use, but still a real pain in the neck for those like me and Loscar who use Spanish keyboards.

Edited by: mazgringo - Nope, didn't work for a single one for me. ;-(

Edited by: mazgringo - WEIRD! It even displays different garbage every time I edit!

Edited by: mazgringo

Hänsel überlegt Öl zu fördern. I'm just trying to see if the Umlaute are working. Probably not. Perhaps I should heed Nutrax's advice. H&aumlnsel &uumlberlegt &Oumll zu f&oumlrdern. Doesn't work either. Spell Check and the Edit function are cool, though. By the way, why is the line "edited by ..." added, is it possible to edit other users' posts? Funny, I just visited page 2 of this thread and when I clicked on "next page" I suddenly landed in the middle of the Spanish megathread. What a mess!

Seriously, could it be LP is trying to get rid of the most faithful posters? With all the useful information some of us provide for free, LP can't be selling too many guide books, can they? Quousque tandem abutere, LP, patientia nostra? I don't know how long I can endure this. TT was nice as long as it lasted.

The semicolon thing is part of the HTML coding. I added spaces before the semicolons

&copy ; ©
&plusmn ; ±
&sup2 ; ²
&frac14 ; ¼
&iquest ; ¿
&iexcl ; ¡

All of these are built into the Mac keyboard, but don't work when typed here.
Haven't tried color before

How about "typewriter text? Hello there

OK, nutrax,

I'll test THAT method here:

&á ;

OK, now a couple of others:

&ñ ; &¿ ; &¡ ; &— ;

Edited by: mazgringo

Nope, that didn't work either. Guess I'll bag TT until tomorrow, then come back and see if it's fixed. This isn't the ONLY thing I HATE about this new TT, but I already posted the other on the Mexico branch thread about problems, so I won't hijack this thread by posting it again.

Edited by: mazgringo

As a protest in the name of languages being not english requiring now so much boring things to do to be clear written, I'm trying with a funny html tag, the famous "marquee"....

Hey, did you know that english is not the only languege spoken in the world and that if things were according to number of speakers the TT probably would have to shift to chinese?

haha....didn't worked, it would have been sooooo funny to have a marquee tag working on the TT....maybe the image tag working has been a response to some TTers asking for a way to share pics relevant for the info they are writing...the font tag with the color and hexadecimal code worked...good to put emphasys on some parts of text...but about languages not being possible to be written easily, I've posted with a subject similar to "language discrimination on the thorn tree". With the new search working really good, I think some of you would like to add some supporting answers to that thread, so our complaint can be attended.....but without deactivating the html!!! is funny!!!

I'm guessing......what if style tag is working here and it is possible to format messages using CSS? haha....we could have a CSS art contest, also as a protest about the new strange TT....

H&aumlnsel &uumlberlegt &Oumll zu f&oumlrdern

The problem is no semicolons: replace the asterisks with semicolons and it works
H&aumlnsel &uumlberlegt &Oumll zu f&oumlrdern

Hänsel überlegt Öl zu fördern

I opened TT in Internet Explorer just now, and in that browser it doesn't look that bad actually. A lot better than in Firefox.

If I were a conspiracy theorist I would say they did it on purpose, because ads can blocked in Firefox.