The Pound £ sign why will it not work?

ericmark · 21 Jul 2009

I tried to make a web page with the Pound £ sign in it. Works great viewed local but as soon as I up load I get question mark instead of pound sign.

I have tried altering header but to no avail.

Here is the page http://www.ericmark.talktalk.net/things_to_do_around_north_wales.html I can't work it out.

dave.m · 21 Jul 2009

Eric,
It depends which coding the web site is using.
If HTML, try typing this, without the spaces, and include the semi colon at the end:

& # 1 6 4 ;

Full symbol codes can be found here:
http://personalweb.about.com/od/addbackgrounds/a/01symbolssigns.htm

ericmark · 21 Jul 2009

Thank you both the £ and & # 1 6 4 ; show as a pound when viewed local but both fail when viewed as a web page on the web!

It is something to do with charset=ISO-8859-1 character encoding my browser was set to UTF-8 but this should have been changed by the metafile with command

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

But it did not change it any ideas?

EddieM · 21 Jul 2009

Have you tried the £ encoding. You may also have to change the pages encoding to UTF-8

dave.m · 21 Jul 2009

Eric,
I take it your are viewing your site using Firefox, because I get the same black diamond with the ? inside it when I look at your site.
BUT using IE8, it shows as a square white box instead of the £ sign.

Looking through Google it is to do with the coding on your web site, but I am not clued up on that side of things.

Can your web host company Help Section sort you out with setting up the WYSIWYG?

dave

Edit,

Have a read of this thread:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=621254

It looks like you can sort it by changing the charset.

dave

ericmark · 21 Jul 2009

Think I have found it.
Missing <html lang="en"> on second line.
Seems when saving one has to select save as HTML and the line is auto added.
Anyway works with two PC's now. Thanks for help.

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ericmark
21 Jul 2009
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This shows on Front Page what I had got wrong so easy when you know how.

diyfail · 24 Jul 2009

No, that's not the correct way to deal with it and neither is using 164. You should use £ that way every browser will know what you want, no matter which encoding they are using. Setting your lang as en relies on the browser being intelligent and making a guess as to your meaning, it will probably be right in most modern browsers but it's not the right way to deal with the situation nor is it guaranteed to be right, where as using £ is.

ericmark · 25 Jul 2009

diyfail said:
No, that's not the correct way to deal with it and neither is using 164. You should use £ that way every browser will know what you want, no matter which encoding they are using. Setting your lang as en relies on the browser being intelligent and making a guess as to your meaning, it will probably be right in most modern browsers but it's not the right way to deal with the situation nor is it guaranteed to be right, where as using £ is.

On checking my web site it seems Front Page when I sent country auto changed all my £ signs to £ which I know has worked.

The Pound £ sign why will it not work?

EddieM

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