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Pound symbol changes into question mark?

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:27 am
by Black Unicorn
Many greetings,

I have over the weeks had a real puzzler in one of my shop sites, which is a pound symbol (£) turning into a question mark whenever the request comes from asia or something. I figured it was an ISO thing so I changed the £ into &#163 or whatever, which did not work (although a space between the £ and the number prevented the first digit to be swallowed by the question mark).

In essence, I have:

£ 8,99
Turning into:
? 8,99
And
£8,99
Turning into:
?,99

Any help truly appreciated.
Thanx,

H.

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 5:41 am
by Tubbietoeter
try £ or £

don't forget the semikolon


also, put this string :

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

in between the <head> and </head> tags.

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 6:24 am
by Black Unicorn
Thank you for pointing that out, I had in face a "charset=windows blah" thing in my Meta ... apparently ms frontpage modifies perfectly good html into buggy html.

Thanx again, now I shall only hope it works.