# ¢¾  ¢¾  ¢¾  ¢¾  ¢¾   Practice post ¢¾  ¢¾  ¢¾  ¢¾  ¢¾

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 8, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217 "2003-04-08T02:09:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/1 "2003-04-08T02:09:58Z")

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Just seeing if I can put symbols in the title.¢¾ ¢¾ ¢¾ ¢¾

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/2 "2003-04-08T02:12:27Z")

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They were supposed to be hearts!  
¢À

¢¼

¢¯ (¿ I love the ¿. It is such a funny symbol, it imples confusion rather than plain question)

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/3 "2003-04-08T02:17:18Z")

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‘ ’ ‚ “ ” „ † ‡ ‰ ‹ › ♠♣❤♦ ‾ ← ↑ → ↓ ™ " & \< \> [] – — ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ® ¯ °

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/4 "2003-04-08T02:18:43Z")

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h

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**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/5 "2003-04-08T08:18:45Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Lobsang \*  
> \*\* (¿ I love the ¿. It is such a funny symbol, it imples confusion rather than plain question) \*\*

Unless you’re Spanish of course…  
Grim  
[sup] Nothing to see here - move along…[/sup]

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/6 "2003-04-08T11:38:07Z")

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```auto

  |
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/ \
|ó ò|
\___/

```

Confused pike.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/7 "2003-04-08T12:59:49Z")

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[メインページ](http://www.straightdope.com/)

I love Mozilla’s foreign language support, cut-and-paste, and Systran’s translation service. 🙂

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/8 "2003-04-09T00:41:21Z")

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Confused pike: \<?)))))))\<

Dead trout: \<+))))))\<

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/9 "2003-04-09T01:07:11Z")

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No wonder it’s dead - it doesn’t have gills!

Live trout: \<°(()))))\>\<

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**Author:** ![This\_just\_in\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@This\_just\_in\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_just_in_1)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/10 "2003-04-10T05:09:04Z")

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```php
What the heck is PHP do on the reply window?

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**Author:** ![This\_just\_in\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@This\_just\_in\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_just_in_1)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/11 "2003-04-10T05:14:55Z")

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Well, so PHP adds lines and makes some (but not all) words blue.  
But why would that be an interesting feature?

What would help the OP is if instead of just the 4 fonts (ariel, times, courier, century) there was a fifth, Symbol.  
That wouldn’t take much to do would it?

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/12 "2003-04-10T16:56:39Z")

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The php tag is a variant on the code tag, designed specifically for PHP code. The code tag strips out most formatting and puts the text in a fixed-width font, which makes it easier to post computer code. In addition, the php tag color-codes words based on what they signify in the PHP language. I’m guessing that all the other words in your example are meaningless, so far as PHP is concerned, but that do has some recognized meaning.

Since this board is written in PHP, it makes sense that a php tag would be more useful to the programmers than, say, a c++ tag.

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/13 "2003-04-10T17:07:41Z")

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DO is part of a loop structure in PHP (much like C++), in case you’re interested:

```php

do {

  $counter++;
  $arraysum += arrayval[$counter];

} while (counter < 10);

```

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/14 "2003-04-10T20:30:16Z")

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“When you are down and out,  
Lift up your head and shout,  
I’M DOWN AND OUT!”

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**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/15 "2003-04-10T21:55:08Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Lobsang \*  
> \*\*‘ ’ ‚ “ ” „ † ‡ ‰ ‹ › ♠♣❤♦ ‾ ← ↑ → ↓ ™ " & \< \> [] – — ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ® ¯ ° \*\*

Okay, there is Katakana there in the post, but when i quote it is a bunch of symbols and i don’t see a symbol tag.

TEST

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**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/16 "2003-04-10T21:57:02Z")

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and now the katakana is gone. Maybe i have Japanese font tags running rampant on my IE…

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**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/17 "2003-04-10T22:00:40Z")

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Ok, now the katakana is back, and the title has the top half of a square bracket and a katakana SE instead of the 3/4 and whatever the other symbol was.

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/18 "2003-04-11T18:35:11Z")

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**Tars** , the problem is described in the old Irving Berlin song:

::: Anything you katakana do,  
I katakana do better :::::

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/19 "2003-04-11T19:25:59Z")

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…No you katakan’t  
Yes I katakan.  
No you katakan’t.  
Yes I katakan.

Ah, the memories that brings back.

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**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post/167217/20 "2003-04-11T20:22:27Z")

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Don’t you mean Irving _Tokyo_???  
(and it is doing it again today! Maybe i’m turning Japanese!)

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