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strange symbols appearing

 

This is a problem i have never come across before and I'm stumped to why I am now getting this?

 

I use scream on ubuntu when building websites (but i get the same problem when using a text editor too), I have never had a problem until the last few days I have noticed any £ signs i enter seem to display with a strange a like symbols (Â) before them. Has anyone else had this problem? or can someone point me in the right direction to fixing it? As far as I'm aware i haven't changed any settings that could of done this.

 

thanks for any help anyone can give me...

Thanks for that,

 

I have checked the settings on scream and found they where already set to Unicode (UTF-8) so, I believe thats ok...

However, I am getting the same problem even when i write a page in my text editor so it could be a system setting I'm missing somewhere that could be overiding it (God knows where though).

 

Thanks for your help and if anyone has any ideas I would be very happy to here them.

Just so anyone else with this problem knows how i fixed it (eventualy)

 

After changing the following in my HTML header the problem disapeared :)

 

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

to

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

 

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