Thanks a bunch.

This should be easy to do but I am hitting a wall.
I want to post a line in a blog entry that has some text formatting characters in it, namely an asterisk.

If i do nothing serendipity sees the asterisks as turning on and off bold text rather than printing the asterisks.
I tried using an <XMP> tag ...

Thanks for the help. I just discovered that with gentoo's php4 package one has to use the expat use flag as well as xml. I recompiled and all is well.

I run a Gentoo system. I just did a ton of updates to the system (but not serendipity) and now I am getting this error message when I try to view my blog


Fatal error: Call to undefined function: utf8_decode() in /home/httpd/htdocs/blog/include/functions_permalinks.inc.php on line 115

I looked at ...