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Author Why won't my laptop display £'s and other symbols on here?
Whittie
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5th Feb 10 at 04:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote


The £ have been replaced with a strange ? logo..... any ideas?
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I think it is a FireFox thing not 100% sure though
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Hapens on mine as well, thought it was just the site
Whittie
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Changes it to Western ISO and it works fine now
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I get this as well in Firefox on my other computer. If anyone has a fix I can do on the site I'll do it. I wasn't sure what was causing it.
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You don't have the document encoding information in the head section of the page, you need to state the content type in a meta tag in the head.
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I think putting this in there will solve the problem:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
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Done
Shane
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now mine is doing it, im on ie8
ed
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Maybe iso-8859-1 encoding would be more appropriate if you're getting problems in IE.
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But IE is such a pain in the arse you might just not bother trying to support it
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Mines just started doing it too now. Im on chrome. Has been fine until now. Fine on my E71 though.
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Mine isn't working now, i get the question mark in a pyramid on my iphone and just a box on IE7

infact its only certain threads.. for example adams thread in cars offered i can see the pound sign.. the 106 a couple down i get a box

[Edited on 06-02-2010 by Kurt]
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Mine's doing it now... on Google Chrome.
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I now get a box instead of a £ sign
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A bit of htmlspecialchars(); on the titles wouldn't go amiss too
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And on the BBCode parser too...
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Mine has started doing this this afternoon, IE8.
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same as wondered why its doing it

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My Chrome has started putting squares instead of pound symbols today
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And now?
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£

Working by the looks of it.

[Edited on 06-02-2010 by John]
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
A bit of htmlspecialchars(); on the titles wouldn't go amiss too


The entire post is run through htmlspecialchars(). Not sure why some browsers are posting £ as £ (the A with a caret is stored in the database as a seperate character -- it's not a display issue)


[Edited on 06-02-2010 by Tim]
ed
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I've just done a little experiment, do you use htmlentitles(); anywhere? When I used that without without specifying anything in the charset argument I got the same results with the £ sign as we're seeing on here.

 
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