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yes but without alter table I don't see any alternative than doing that. Slow and cumbersome work arounds may be the only choice.

thanks, that makes sense. It's ok when they are all hosted in one place, but opening it up to a myriad of servers around the world ...

Plus of course when you have more than a few extensions installed  - oops sorry preaching to the converted.

yes if memory serves that is right. there are ways around it, but they aren't easy.

ahh, yep that makes sense - funnily enough I was talking about the bullet colouring only the other day.

sounds good.

I'll have a think about the extension - I'm not sure it would be possible but it'll depend on the hooks available. If they can be turned on/off then that suggests a possible hook implementation though.

ahh but you can get better...

Rather than me helping you straight away. You already have tips on how to do it - try tabbing into punBB1.3 and you'll see what I mean. I haven't checked to see exactly how it is done in the default template but it should be fairly easy to replicate for other use.

And if that doesn't help, let me know and I'll play with things and see what I can come up with.

I'll refer back to the part you wrote that I quoted previously...

People should have the ability to enter the characters via their numeric entity, and named enitities, as well as the actual character. Which I think is what you are asking.

Paul likewise - we must code too much.

oh behave!

How many people really know how to use, for example, an english keyboard to enter foreign characters - let alone certain characters from the English language. Don't we already have a thread about the use of an ellipsis - how would that be entered as a character via the keyboard ? Entities will always be required, IMHO.

:grin:

Rickard touched on this, in an oblique way, when I mentioned adding a 'back link' to a form error page.  I suggested it might be better to, but he rightly pointed out the browser back button.  This is a similar case, there is a back to top functionality already available so the 'back to top' link just replicates what is already available.

I'd suggest that if it doesn't get added in you just create your own theme and add it in there

Would I request it be added by default? I'm not sure, for accessibility it isn't needed, but it might add a bit of usability.

If they were in an extension the admin could choose which ones to allow the use of. But they have been there in punBB for some time, so if it was made into an extension I'd suggest it was actually packaged with the download (or as part of some official core extensions pack).

But at this stage, I doubt turning it into an extension is a possibility - so a retro fit extension might be required.