Add HTML and Special Characters to all node titles!

I found this to be the answer to a huge mystery in Drupal world...

Go to your template.php file in your themes folder for the them you are using and open it... right after the initial php opening tag line 1: <?php

function bb2html($text) {
$bbcode = array(
"[strong]", "[/strong]",
"[b]", "[/b]",
"[u]", "[/u]",
"[i]", "[/i]",
"[em]", "[/em]",
"[amp]", "[theta]", "[degree]", "[prime]", "[doubleprime]", "[squareroot]"
);
$htmlcode = array(
"<strong>", "</strong>",
"<strong>", "</strong>",
"<u>", "</u>",
"<em>", "</em>",
"<em>", "</em>",
"&amp;", "&theta;", "&#176;", "&prime;", "&Prime;", "&radic;"
);
return str_replace($bbcode, $htmlcode, $text);
}

function bb_strip($text) {
$bbcode = array(
"[strong]", "[/strong]",
"[b]", "[/b]",
"[u]", "[/u]",
"[i]", "[/i]",
"[em]", "[/em]",
"&amp;", "&theta;", "&#176;", "&prime;", "&Prime;", "&radic;"
);
return str_replace($bbcode, '', $text);
}

Save it...

then open up page.tpl.php and find the lines that mention $title... basically we want to slip in

<?php print bb2html($title); ?> there but modify what is actually in YOUR page.tpl.php file... in my instance I was using plain old Garland (yippee!)

so I found:
<?php if ($title): print '<h2'. ($tabs ? ' class="with-tabs"' : '') .'>'. $title .'</h2>'; endif; ?>
around line 68
and replaced it with:
<?php if ($title): print '<h2'. ($tabs ? ' class="with-tabs"' : '') .'>'. bb2html($title) .'</h2>'; endif;

Finally put this (as he said before) between the title tags at the top to strip the [whatever] items out of your title...

<?php print bb_strip($head_title); ?>

Ok so that's it, hopefully you can get through the patterns now... if you still have issues I will subscribe to this thread or just contact me, for my instance I needed only scientific special characters... so I am going to make a completed list of characters and post the whole thing here when I am done, so whomever will not have to do the same work again.