Trying To Use An Emoticon

[Tilly2]

This morning, Danny kindly sent me a link to this webpage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons.

I had a good look and copied one of the High Five emoticon in the 'Upright Latin-only emoticons and single-line art and portraits' section.

When I pasted it to say thank you to Danny, the last three bits wouldn't paste. All that pasted was................. >_>^ ^

I tried to do it by typing rather than copying and pasting but agin, it did not apperar once the reply was submitted.

It's not terribly important but I would like to know why the last part won't transfer to a submitted post.

[Buenchico]

Your link appears to be incorrect. I assume that you meant this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons
(The difference appears to be that you've included a full stop on the end of the link).

Let's just give that a try:
>_>^ ^

[scorpiojo]

Let's see if it works

[scorpiojo]

That's a no, then...

[Mamyalynne]

It won't work, I tried it on the earlier thread.

[Buenchico]

Hmm.

I see what you mean. There must be something in the coding used by AB which terminates a string after certain characters have been entered. (It's akin to the various other quirks on this site whereby, for example, some posts seem to be automatically cut off as soon as an Amazon link is included, or where italic text seems not to work if there's any punctuation included within it).

I doubt that AB's techies can be bothered to sort it out though. Those of us who're currently beta testing the new AB site are currently giving them plenty of headaches anyway ;-)

[Tilly2]

The original link works for me but no matter. Thanks for trying this out. I thought it was just me.

^5 will have to suffice. It's a shame because I liked the pattern of the other one. Never mind.