thehigherentity Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadTechie Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Yep try had it in a database try switching to 'utf8_general_ci' encoding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehigherentity Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 Thanks for that, I have checked the settings on scream and found they where already set to Unicode (UTF- 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehigherentity Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 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"> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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