Sorry, misunderstood the question.... when you type ° we convert it in the message to ° which displays as °. BUT, the message box still contains the character sequence & d e g ; (without the spaces obv), which your browser displays as a degree sign. We could get around it by making the message box contain ° as well which would display as °

Clear as mud innit. Thinking about it, we should make that change. Will do....

hi, yes if you copy / paste from a character map it should work. We don't support directly typed html - it just shows as typed.