strange results echoing '£'

[Dragen]

I'm getting a very strange result trying to echo a simple pound sign '£'.

Here's my code:

$currency = '£';
echo $currency;

For some reason it's outputting this:

£

With the Â...

I've tried this as well:

echo htmlentities($currency)

but I get the same result.. I've never had this problem before and it doesn't6 happen with any other symbols, could anyone suggest an answer?

 

Thanks

[rarebit]

Works fine for me but:

$currency = '£';
echo $currency.' £ £ ';

[Dragen]

yeah.. I don't get it.

it works fine if I use either:

£ or £

but I need to be able to use just the £ symbol, and convert it using htmlentities, because it's for other people to use who probably wont understand the codes for them.

 

It's a really strange result though...

 

EDIT: If I use htmlentities on it and view the source it outputs:

£

Just can't figure out why it's adding the Â

[rarebit]

How does it handle when comes from a textbox?

[Dragen]

it's not coming from a text box...

just a file with a couple of variables at the top which have instructions on how to modify.

[rarebit]

Will it replace?

[Dragen]

sorry.. what do you mean?

[Jessica]

It's probably the text editor you are using to save your files.

[Dragen]

just realised it's not limited to outputting with php... I tried putting £ on the page outside of <?php tags and the same thing happens.

 

Can't be the text editor.. I'm using dreamweaver, which has never given a problem like that before.

It also seems to be only on this one file for some reason..

[Dragen]

actually.. it is happenning on other files...

 

All I've got on this file now is this:

<?php
$currency = '£';
echo $currency;
?>

and I'm still getting:

£

 

hmmm.. for some reason it's changed my £ sign in my code up their to the ascii, but it should be the £ symbol.

[effigy]

"£" is the UTF-8 encoding for a pound sign. Use <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />.

[Dragen]

ah.... I feel stupid

 

thanks!

[Dragen]

actually.. It's still not working. I've set the headers. I've got my meta tag as:

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

which is what I always use, but it's still outputting £.

[rucia]

Try this:

 

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

[Dragen]

already tried that, thanks

[effigy]

If you're saving the script as UTF-8, you need PHP to process it as so--not just the output from PHP, but the code itself. This could be a web server thing; I'm not positive at the moment. Are you using Apache?