What is & # 6 1 5 1 4 ; ?

[BlindFish]

OK - this is a weird one...

A colleague of mine has had what can only be described as a 'love letter' from some strange woman who has included the HTML number: & # 6 1 5 1 4 ; in it as a kind of 'secret code'... Apparently the message will make sense if he can find out the HTML name for it (I'm thinking it might be like & # 2 5 0 ; = & u a c u t e ; = you are cute... :eek: )...

Problem is he wants me to find out what the HTML name for 61514 is and I can't find it anywhere... am I on a wild goose chase? I popped it into a bit of html and it comes out as a full stop - am I missing something?

If anyone out there can help with this conundrum I'd appreciate it - he's getting rather desparate!

Cheers

[morriswindgate]

It is probably Spam or Porn, a while back I kept getting E-Mails like that. The number corresponds to the entry on the site. I got tired of getting them so I went to the site got the contacts for the site and then sent them 100 of their own E-Mails for everyone they sent me. They stopped sending them.

[BlindFish]

no - this is from someone he knows...

[morriswindgate]

Well do a Google search for 
I did and got refs to the Sims, Age of Empires and a whole bunch of stuff.

[mairving]

I think that it she is mistakingly thinking that it is the unicode character for the smiley face. Of course, to make your friend happy, you might need to make up something as to what it is.

[BlindFish]

I think you're right mairving... I managed to find a thread on some forum somewhere where they were saying it was a smiley face and also on some random Russian site where it seemed to suggest it was a very smiley face :-))))

Cheers for the suggestions :)

[Signature]

Typing the number "6 1 5 1 4" (without spaces) into Google's search engine, will bring up many instances of & # 6 1 5 1 4 ;

I did this, to begin with, and couldn't find a clue as to what it might mean, because none of the sites that came up held any further information, as far as I could tell...
All I saw was more & # 6 1 5 1 4 ; within nearly every site, except for two of them...

One site held a little square.
When I viewed the source of the little square, & # 6 1 5 1 4 came up in it's place.
Notice, this is without the semi-colon at the end.
It wasn't & # 6 1 5 1 4 ;
It was just & # 6 1 5 1 4

And then there's this site.
I see a little square in morriswingate's reply to this post.
I viewed the source of this post, and sure enough, & # 6 1 5 1 4 comes up in the text file, in place of the little square.


So, I copied and pasted the little square into Notepad, and a simple question mark came out.
Just a "?".

I went along for a while, thinking surely I had found a different answer, which was rather disappointing, I thought, because what's so great about a question mark?

I typed "question mark 61514" into Google, and found this: www2.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn-archive1/posts/topic44228.shtm
(Read the page, and then search the source code for & # 6 1 5 1 4 ;)

There's this: www.ticalc.org/community/surveys/69.html?p=1, found after searching Google for "smiley 61514".
The second message down asks the burning & # 6 1 5 1 4 ; question, and the third message down answers it quite simply.

And then later, I found this: awcfamily.com/awc/htmlchar.php?61+5, just for fun.

[dldz]

BTW Morris,the washer works fan#%*@ tastic !
I haven't received anymore SPAM. And I really enjoy the bounce feature :D
Thx Don