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Old 01-06-2022, 10:17 PM   #619 (permalink)
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I agree, but they don't exist on this computer.
I disagree. Asterisk is not a number. Your machine probably displays the character, no?

Apple Macintoshs have it on the keyboard (Shft-Opt-8) but with Windows or Linux (apparently) one has to use escape character and the ASCII value or the HTML name.
  • Decimal 149
  • Oct 225
  • Hex 95
  • Bin 10010101
  • Symbol &#
  • HTML No •
  • HTML Name •
  • Description Bullet
  • Category Extended ASCII Codes
https://everythingfonts.com/ascii/codes/149

I'm no help with Windows and vBulletion doesn't recognize &bull.
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https://support.microsoft.com › en-us › topic › insert-ascii-or-unicode-latin-based-symbols-and-characters-d13f58d3-7bcb-44a7-a4d5-972ee12e50e0
ASCII nonprinting control characters. More information. Insert an ASCII or Unicode character into a document. If you only have to enter a few special characters or symbols, you can use the Character Map or type keyboard shortcuts. See the tables below, or see Keyboard shortcuts for international characters for a list of ASCII characters.

Escape character - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Escape_character
The ASCII "escape" character (octal: \033, hexadecimal: \x1B, or ^[, or, in decimal, 27) is used in many output devices to start a series of characters called a control sequence or escape sequence. Typically, the escape character was sent first in such a sequence to alert the device that the following characters were to be interpreted as a ...
Long story short -- use the button.
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