How come the equal symbol doesn't show up in my text when I type it?

[Hotler]

[underpants]

1. All things are not

=

[Hotler]

3. It won't show up for me. But,

trump equals fascism if elected again.

[ramblin_dave]

2. Maybe your keyboard has a bad key,

if you are using Windows, try the on-screen keyboard (type key in the search area and select On-Screen Keyboard).

[Hotler]

4. it works in word and my emails.

[Ptah]

5. Some symbols do not show up in the title

But will show up in the reply.

=

[Rhiannon12866]

12. You're right, that's one of the symbols that won't show up in the subject line

Along with any word or name that has an accent in it. But those will show up in the body of the post.

[Yonnie3]

6. Some characters are removed from post titles

I believe it is part of DU's hacker defense.

[Hotler]

7. Out of all of my post in the last few months

these are the most intelligent responses I have received. Thanks

[lunasun]

8. Do you remember the 2016 election hack ? After the fix some symbols in titles don't post

[Uben]

9. Democrat hoax?

Everything else is according to Scump!

[Make7]

10. trump = fascism if elected again

After the election hack, they prevented some special characters from appearing in post titles to prevent malicious code from being run on people's browsers.

You can use html entities to get almost anything to display in your post title. For example, use = to show an equals sign. The drawbacks are: previewing the post changes it to the actual character and then posting from the previewed page makes it disappear again (just hit the back button on your browser before clicking 'Post my reply!'), and if you should need to edit a post later then you need to manually change those special characters back into html entities.

It's up to you if the little bit of extra work is worth the effort.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/named-characters.html#named-character-references

Not all of the named entities will work, but using the unicode number typically will. For example = to show an equals sign.

[Hotler]

11. Thank you everyone. nt