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Old 06-16-2010, 02:02 PM problem with £ on website
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Hi all i got a £ on my site but it keeps puttin an A in front of it like this £40 any ideas thanks
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Old 06-16-2010, 02:09 PM Re: problem with £ on website
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use £
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Old 06-16-2010, 02:16 PM Re: problem with £ on website
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Thanks Chris why do you need to do that any idea ?
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Old 06-16-2010, 02:39 PM Re: problem with £ on website
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It will be a code page/character set mismatch, if you pasted the £ sign into your code from a unicode character set you possibly put both bytes into the source.
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Old 06-16-2010, 02:47 PM Re: problem with £ on website
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Old 06-16-2010, 03:49 PM Re: problem with £ on website
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Its because you need to use UTF8 / UTF8 Unicode

I had this issue before.
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Old 06-17-2010, 03:57 AM Re: problem with £ on website
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Same goes for many many symbols you might encounter on your site:

&copy;
&trade;
&pound;
&amp;

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp
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