;j == Jewish Smiley
<<j == Jewish Smiley
Now that’s odd.
<<j
Yes it does.
<<D
Well, that didn’t work. I guess its just the Jewish smiley.
<j
Hmm… so this makes one as well: <j
>j
Well, both < and > work.
Used to be that the same bug would produce a wink, as well, but the programers put in a workaround for that one in the latest version. But Winky is standard, while Happy Orthodox Jew is specific to the SDMB only, so they didn’t think to fix it there.
What’s happening, is the < is turning into the HTML escape sequence &****nblt; , so <****j turns into &****nblt;****j. The vBulletin software sees the ;j and turns that into ;j , leaving &nblt;j, and on most browsers, the escape sequence will display the character even without the semicolon on the end, so you’re left with <;j.
This should work with any character which is represented by an escape sequence, including < > and & .
Huh. Learn something new every day.
&j
That was ampersand plus j – which on the above should produce an ampersand and the Jewish smiley.