A way to use literal BBCode

[crythias]

Let's say you'd like to show someone how to use BBCode on this board, but you'd like to use BBCode yourself.
Example
[­code=php]paste your code here[/code]

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paste your code here

There's a really sneaky way to do that. Alt-0173 (on the numeric keypad) after the tags' left bracket.
So, to tell someone (as does the BBCode howto) to use the [­b][­/b] tags to make something Bold, type the bracket, hold the Alt key, type 0173 in the numeric keypad, release Alt, then type the rest of the BBCode:
[Alt-0173b][Alt-0173/b]

Alt-0173 is called a "Soft Hyphen" and is generally used for naughtiness, though this might be considered a legitimate use case.