In the “(for manhattan) codes for special characters” thread, there was a comprehensive list of special character codes, but the software changeover mucked it all up. Could the original author (Arnold Winkelried) or someone equally qualified re-post the list? It was very helpful to me.
Thank you!
Esprix
Esprix: I don’t think that HTML-style special characters (the topic under discussion in that thread) can be used anymore, with the new software. Provided that you’re using Windows, you can still use charmap (probably on your start menu, under “accessories”
You know what Chronos, I used to think that too, but then in a test post I made the HTML special characters showed up successfully! But then when I tried to re-post the original message here, they didn’t. I still am trying to figure out why they don’t always get “translated.”
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alt + 32 = space
alt + 33 = ! exclamation mark
alt + 34 = " double quotation mark
alt + 35 = # number sign
alt + 36 = $ dollar sign
alt + 37 = % percent sign
alt + 38 = & ampersand
alt + 39 = ' apostrophe
alt + 40 = ( left parenthesis
alt + 41 = ) right parenthesis
alt + 42 = * asterisk
alt + 43 = + plus sign
alt + 44 = , comma
alt + 45 = - hyphen
alt + 46 = . period
alt + 47 = / slash
alt + 58 = : colon
alt + 59 = ; semicolon
alt + 60 = < less-than sign
alt + 61 = = equals sign
alt + 62 = > greater-than sign
alt + 63 = ? question mark
alt + 64 = @ at sign
alt + 91 = [ left square bracket
alt + 92 = \ backslash
alt + 93 = ] right square bracket
alt + 94 = ^ caret
alt + 95 = _ horizontal bar (underscore)
alt + 96 = ` grave accent
alt + 0123 = { left curly brace
alt + 0124 = | vertical bar
alt + 0125 = } right curly brace
alt + 0126 = ~ tilde
alt + 0127 = square
alt + 0130 = ‚ comma
alt + 0131 = ƒ function
alt + 0132 = „ low left rising double quote
alt + 0133 = … ellipsis
alt + 0134 = † dagger mark
alt + 0135 = ‡ double dagger
alt + 0136 = ˆ letter modifying circumflex
alt + 0137 = ‰ per thousand sign
alt + 0138 = Š capital S caron or haceck
alt + 0139 = ‹ left single angle quote
alt + 0140 = Πcapital OE ligature
alt + 0145 = ‘ left single quotation mark
alt + 0146 = ’ right single quoatation mark
alt + 0147 = “ left double quotation mark
alt + 0148 = ” right double quotation mark
alt + 0149 = • round solid bullet
alt + 0150 = – en dash
alt + 0151 = — em dash
alt + 0152 = ˜ small tilde
alt + 0153 = ™ trademark
alt + 0154 = š s caron or hacek
alt + 0155 = › right single angle quotation mark
alt + 0156 = œ small oe ligature
alt + 0159 = Ÿ capital Y umlaut
alt + 0160 = nonbreaking space
alt + 0161 = ¡ inverted exclamation
alt + 0162 = ¢ cent sign
alt + 0163 = £ pound sterling
alt + 0164 = ¤ general currency sign
alt + 0165 = ¥ yen sign
alt + 0166 = ¦ broken vertical bar
alt + 0167 = § section sign
alt + 0168 = ¨ umlaut
alt + 0169 = © copyright
alt + 0170 = ª feminine ordinal
alt + 0171 = « left angle quote
alt + 0172 = ¬ not sign
alt + 0173 = soft hyphen
alt + 0174 = ® registered trademark
alt + 0175 = ¯ macron accent
alt + 0176 = ° degree sign
alt + 0177 = ± plus or minus
alt + 0178 = ² superscript two
alt + 0179 = ³ superscript three
alt + 0180 = ´ acute accent
alt + 0181 = µ micro sign
alt + 0182 = ¶ paragraph sign
alt + 0183 = · middle dot
alt + 0184 = ¸ cedilla
alt + 0185 = ¹ superscript one
alt + 0186 = º masculine ordinal
alt + 0187 = » right angle quote
alt + 0188 = ¼ one-fourth
alt + 0189 = ½ one-half
alt + 0190 = ¾ three-fourths
alt + 0191 = ¿ inverted question mark
alt + 0192 = À uppercase A, grave accent
alt + 0193 = Á uppercase A, acute accent
alt + 0194 = Â uppercase A, circumflex accent
alt + 0195 = Ã uppercase A, tilde
alt + 0196 = Ä uppercase A, umlaut
alt + 0197 = Å uppercase A, ring
alt + 0198 = Æ uppercase AE
alt + 0199 = Ç uppercase C, cedilla
alt + 0200 = È uppercase E, grave accent
alt + 0201 = É uppercase E, acute accent
alt + 0202 = Ê uppercase E, circumflex accent
alt + 0203 = Ë uppercase E, umlaut
alt + 0204 = Ì uppercase I, grave accent
alt + 0205 = Í uppercase I, acute accent
alt + 0206 = Î uppercase I, circumflex accent
alt + 0207 = Ï uppercase I, umlaut
alt + 0208 = Ð uppercase Eth, Icelandic
alt + 0209 = Ñ uppercase N, tilde
alt + 0210 = Ò uppercase O, grave accent
alt + 0211 = Ó uppercase O, acute accent
alt + 0212 = Ô uppercase O, circumflex accent
alt + 0213 = Õ uppercase O, tilde
alt + 0214 = Ö uppercase O, umlaut
alt + 0215 = × multiplication sign
alt + 0216 = Ø uppercase O, slash
alt + 0217 = Ù uppercase U, grave accent
alt + 0218 = Ú uppercase U, acute accent
alt + 0219 = Û uppercase U, circumflex accent
alt + 0220 = Ü uppercase U, umlaut
alt + 0221 = Ý uppercase Y, acute accent
alt + 0222 = Þ uppercase THORN, Icelandic
alt + 0223 = ß lowercase sharps, German
alt + 0224 = à lowercase a, grave accent
alt + 0225 = á lowercase a, acute accent
alt + 0226 = â lowercase a, circumflex accent
alt + 0227 = ã lowercase a, tilde
alt + 0228 = ä lowercase a, umlaut
alt + 0229 = å lowercase a, ring
alt + 0230 = æ lowercase ae
alt + 0231 = ç lowercase c, cedilla
alt + 0232 = è lowercase e, grave accent
alt + 0233 = é lowercase e, acute accent
alt + 0234 = ê lowercase e, circumflex accent
alt + 0235 = ë lowercase e, umlaut
alt + 0236 = ì lowercase i, grave accent
alt + 0237 = í lowercase i, acute accent
alt + 0238 = î lowercase i, circumflex accent
alt + 0239 = ï lowercase i, umlaut
alt + 0240 = ð lowercase eth, Icelandic
alt + 0241 = ñ lowercase n, tilde
alt + 0242 = ò lowercase o, grave accent
alt + 0243 = ó lowercase o, acute accent
alt + 0244 = ô lowercase o, circumflex accent
alt + 0245 = õ lowercase o, tilde
alt + 0246 = ö lowercase o, umlaut
alt + 0247 = ÷ division sign
alt + 0248 = ø lowercase o, slash
alt + 0249 = ù lowercase u, grave accent
alt + 0250 = ú lowercase u, acute accent
alt + 0251 = û lowercase u, circumflex accent
alt + 0252 = ü lowercase u, umlaut
alt + 0253 = ý lowercase y, acute accent
alt + 0254 = þ lowercase thorn, Icelandic
alt + 0255 = ÿ lowercase y, umlaut
alt + 8217 = ’ curly apostrophe*
alt + 8220 = “ open quotation mark*
alt + 8221 = ” close quotation mark*
alt + 8364 = € Euro symbol*
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This appears to be the best table I can make at this time with vBulletin.
Esprix
Don’t you use a Mac? If so, you can use KeyCaps.
In my experience playing around with the vBulletin software when it came out, the html style escape sequences will show up correctly if you preview the post first (although they won’t show up correctly in the preview window).
I will not preview this post.
< &rt; & ± œ
This time I will submit the post from the preview page.
< > & ± œ
(except that I corrected a mistake)
Ooo, you guys rock! 
UncleBeer, I’ll try those! Thank you!
DrMatrix, I do have a Mac, but it’s at home - I do all my posting from work on my {bleh} Compaq.
waterj, I thought this had worked for me once, and now I see that it does. Funny little bug, that, but, oh well, no harm no foul. You might want to give it a try, Arnold.
Now I’ll have to go back to that old thread, copy the codes, preview it, and post it here with instructions. (Hmmm… maybe I don’t have quite that much time on my hands… :))
Actually, I’m just happy they have underlining now. If only they’d fix the quoting feature… 
Esprix, who isn’t complaining!
waterj2
I gotta try that:
< > & ± œ - without preview
Umm, what’s wrong with the quote feature?
waterj2
I gotta try that:
< > & ± œ - with preview
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Curious,
Each time you press submit reply it does another level of substitution.
± with one preview becomes ± and then becomes ± with a second preview.
So, what you see in the “Your Reply” window is what actually posts, not (necessarily) what you see in the “Post Preview:” area and each time you preview it does another HTML substitution.
UncleBeer
I guessing Esprix meant that when you click on “quote reply” you don’t get a line saying (for example) loverock said:
Yup. Very inconvenient. Why, if I weren’t so anal-retentive…
Esprix
To put special characters into a message, use the
Character Map accessory.
(In Windows in the Start/ Programs/ Accessory list.
Apple has a similar tool.)
It displays a grid of all the characters. (Be sure you’re in the same font you see on SDMB, or they won’t show up.)
You click on a character, and it appears in the window. Push Copy and then come back to the post window and Paste (under the Edit pulldown, or ctrl-v).
That’s all there is to it. Nothing to remember, no long hex codes.
waterj2, DrMatrix, thank you for eliminating my confusion!
Show_Biz, not everyone uses Windows or MacOS (though I imagine most people do.) And for me, when for example I write the word fiancée, it’s faster to type é than to find character map in the Start menu (when I’m at work).
At home, I’m lucky enough to have a Mac, which has a standard “shortcut” for accents that works in every program. For example, é is <option>e e.
Actually, Arnold, Windows has cross-program shortcuts, too, but they’re perhaps a bit less mnemnonic. For instance, alt+0174 gives me ® , which is character number 0174 on charmap. This works on all programs which use the Windows text-entry routines. They’re a bit harder to remember, but if there’s a few particular ones that you use a lot, it might be worthwhile.
Caveat: You must use the number pad numbers for this; the numbers across the top of the keyboard won’t work. I don’t know if/how it works on laptops.
Esprix, if you have requests for new features in the next releases of vBulletin, they’ll take them at their website.
Thank you Chronos, I knew of those (see UncleBeer’s posting near the top of this thread where he lists the Windows “alt” codes for special characters.)
The Macintosh shortcuts are easier to remember. For example, “<option>u” is the umlaut, so for an a umlaut, it’s “<option>u a”, an e umlaut is “<option>u e”, etc…
Whereas on Windows it would be a totally different number for each. And I’m too old to learn all those numbers. 
At least the HTML codes are “mnemonic”, e.g. auml, euml, ouml, etc…