# Special characters ( ™ ¢ ® ) in thread titles

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-characters-cent-174-in-thread-titles/194091
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**Created:** [August 9, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-characters-cent-174-in-thread-titles/194091 "2003-08-09T21:52:54Z")
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### Author: ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-characters-cent-174-in-thread-titles/194091/1 "2003-08-09T21:52:54Z")

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Just seeing if they came through…

I used ™ ¢ and ® in the title

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### Author: ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-characters-cent-174-in-thread-titles/194091/2 "2003-08-09T21:59:19Z")

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So…

The Windows Alt key codes go through, but not the HTML Name or HTML Number codes

Anyone try the Mac codes?

[Here](http://home.earthlink.net/~awinkelried/keyboard_shortcuts.html) the keyboard shortcuts.

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### Author: ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-characters-cent-174-in-thread-titles/194091/3 "2003-08-09T22:02:28Z")

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Alt+0162 and Alt+0174 in the post title.

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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: [August 10, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-characters-cent-174-in-thread-titles/194091/4 "2003-08-10T23:03:11Z")

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test

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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: [August 10, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-characters-cent-174-in-thread-titles/194091/5 "2003-08-10T23:05:02Z")

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### Author: ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-characters-cent-174-in-thread-titles/194091/6 "2003-08-14T03:37:34Z")

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### Author: ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-characters-cent-174-in-thread-titles/194091/7 "2003-08-14T03:39:55Z")

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**Y!**

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### Author: ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-characters-cent-174-in-thread-titles/194091/8 "2003-08-14T03:41:50Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by elmwood \*  
> \*\***[!** \*\*