PHP to PDF not printing £

[liamloveslearning]

Hi all,

 

Im working on a page which will generate a pdf on the fly.

I have my variable $value which when I echo to the browser shows £20 however if i run my page as it would my pdf displays '20', without the £ sign.

 

I've tried

if(strstr($value, '£'))
{
$value
}
else
{
echo "£ is not in the string";
}

 

to no avail, is this a character set issue or something similiar? wracking my brains!

[liamloveslearning]

sorry i meant echo $value;

[JonnoTheDev]

£ is not a valid character in all sets. UTF-8 it is. You should use the HTML entity for a £.

<?php
$value = '£20';
if(strstr(htmlentities($value), '£'))
{
echo htmlentities($value);
}
else
{
echo "£ is not in the string";
}
?>