what is the best way to guarentee that the pound sign shows in all browsers ?

[jasonc]

I have had a few people complain to me about the pound (£) sign not showing up correctly in their browsers.

 

What method or code should I be using to make sure that everyone sees the same results no matter what browsers they use ?

[teynon]

£

 

[jasonc]

This is what is being displayed in Firefox

 

 

£12.00

 

how do i get the page to show the pound sign and not the characters before without cropping them off.

 

this also shows in the email client, WLM as

 

£12.00

 

 

[markjoe]

I think you need to get more info from the users about what browser version they are using. You'll need to recreate this one to troubleshoot it.

I just confirmed £ render correctly on Google Chrome 11, Firefox 3.6.17, IE8, Safari 5.0.2 on Windows 7 and Firefox 3.6.16, Chromium 10 on Ubuntu.

[jasonc]

yes using the &pound seems to have fixed the browser issue, but for some reason i am still getting myself and everyone else the strange characters before the £ in the emails that are sent out with the prices.

 

Both webmail via Hoard mail using firefox and IE and also in WLM

 

£12.00

[KevinM1]

What charset are you using?

[jasonc]

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

[kilvroch]

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