I'm not quite sure what you mean, but i know lots of people use special characters on their Bebo profiles. You can access these by;
● clicking 'Start' (or the equivilent) in the bottom left corner of your screen
● Click 'All Programs'
● There will be a long list but there is a separator, or a line, somewhere at the start and right after that there is a button or whatever called 'Accessories' ~ click that.
● Four places down there is a heading called 'System Tools' ~ Click this
● Then somewhere in this list is a link labelled 'Character Map' ~ click this and small pop-up window will come up and you can choose your characters from there.
Another, slightly easier way to do this is to;
● open up Microsoft Office Word
● to to the drop down list at the top 'Insert'
● Select 'Symbol'. Then a character map will pop-up and you can double click whatever character you want and it will appear in the document.
Also, you can't 'get' italics. You write a code for it, basically. Other common ones are bold;
Your text here
Underline;
Your text here
Italics;
Your text here
As far as i know those are the only ones you can use on Bebo, but on MySpace you can use;
Your Text Here
and
Your Text here
and any others your can find. [:
Hope I've helped. ~