Prevent emoticons in thread title?

[gsk8]

Hey all,

Is there a way to prevent emoticons in a Thread Title? See attached.

[djbaxter]

You might be able to adapt this add-on (not certain - I haven't tried it): Miscellaneous Hacks - Thread/Post Title Characters - vBulletin.org Forum

Update: Yes that will work if you use the following regex in the Allowed Characters option for the add-on:

[a-zA-Z0-9: ]

Actually, that disables all punctuation.

So you'd need to selectively disable the character ) and ( but allow all punctuation you want to allow:

[a-zA-Z0-9:.,!?&%@$#-+="';>< ]

which starts to get somewhat clumsy and might not disallow all smilies anyway.

[Mark.B]

This will only be an issue on mobile devices - the actual forum smilies won't parse in thread titles. I'm guessing a mobile device will see them and interpret them as emoticons and display them as such. Annoying behaviour but not easily preventable.

[gsk8]

Thanks DJ and Mark!

Is this also an issue on VB5 mobile?