Whenever people want to say that something is not equal to another thing, they uses the mathematical symbol of an equals sign with a forward slash over it. This is often written out as /=, since people know that some symbols don’t work everywhere. However, it would be nice if I could actually cut and paste the actual symbol, just as I do with foreign characters , such as スコットランド (Scotland)
So, why the difference? Why foreign words, and symbols, but no “Does not equal” sign?
I use this: <>
Another option: !=
Another option: not equal
Here’s your del tag with an equal sign: [del]=[/del]
[symbol]¹[/symbol]
For any kind of technical notation, it’s a lot easier to use the symbol font than unicode. Plus, you get the bonus of most people actually seeing what you mean.
Some mathematical symbols via Unicode:
≠ Not Equal
≈ Squiggly Equal
≡ Identical
≤≥ LToET, GToET
Fun with Wingdings:
ü Check Mark
û “X” Mark
I Hi!!
ABC Peace! OK! Thumbs up!
I could’ve sworn that used to work.
ABC
ABC
ABC
Nope, guess not.
D’oh! :smack: Forgot. It’s a Firefox thing. Never mind.
I see. However, I used symbol, and it still didn’t transfer. However, I cut and pasted Ponder’s ≠ and it DID work. Odd.
Ah well, thank you guys.
FYI, that comes up for me as “???” (row of question marks), so it may not be as universal as you think.
Odd. To me, your row of question marks come up “Q33NY” 
But really, I think it depends on what fonts are installed on your machine.
It’s annoying to me that I can’t simply type the ? symbol.
That’s the classic not-equals symbol you referred to, created by holding down the Option key and typing the equals sign. ???. <-- Ten of them.
Looks fine in the Quick Reply box but when I post it’s going to strip them out or replace them with question marks or something :mad:
Are you on Windows 95/98/ME? Could have something to do with that.
No, I don’t have an option key, nor am I using Windows 98. I am posting from a dumb terminal running XP.