British Pound (£) Display?

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I’ve got a site I’m working on that uses text drawn from a MYSQL database.

When a user enters text that includes the British pound symbol ‘£’, it is displayed as a ‘ï¾£’

My char set is:

What am I doing wrong???

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I think it’s related to how your MYSQL database charset is setup. Nothing you can do since you cannot modify the setup.

Try to use :

#chr(163)#

3

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, it is user generated content that is being stored in the database.

4

had the same issue

eventually had to change to UTF8