This appears on certain blogs I post on when I have used the right-hand caret (over the period) to create cutesy text.  I don't know what it means, and when I copy & paste it into other docs it often disappears everything after it including itself.

The term is: .

I have done searches for the term but have not FOUND it anywhere.  Anybody know anything?  Thanks.

I'll try to produce it here, for example if I wanted to emphasize POOF with carets I would WRITE it as >POOF<

Well that didn't work.  is the full expression & should have appeared after >POOF< on its own but didn't.  I guess it depends on the host.  Still I'd like to know what it means and what it is supposed to do.

if I wanted to emphasize POOF with carets I would write it as >POOF<


those aren't carets,- "^" is a caret.

<> are angle brackets.

some forums/blog comments allow HTML instead of BBCode. the SafetyWrapper STUFF is probably some FORM of protection from people using unrecognized Tags (such as, for example, a "