ampersand hash in posts

[saaby93]

now and again someone posts an ampersand hash this followed by 128521

&#128521

whats it mean? and is there a way the forum can translate it?

[marshalla]

It's one of these : http://www.codetable.net/decimal/128521

PH isn't built to handle unicode characters, which is why you see things like that appearing occasionally.

[saaby93]

Who uses them? whats wrong with a normal smiley

[marshalla]

Mobile devices with virtual keyboards, mainly. Homogenisation. I prefer being able to embed creative content too.