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Jan 24.2007

Hello

I have a strange problem, i have a webpage which has problems showing £ pound signs in internet explorer but not in firefox

it replaces the pound sign with a ?

i cant work this out, its the same page

please look

[url]http://www.miniventure.co.uk/prices2.php[/url]

if this help, what u dont see, it that the test it being grabed from a mysql table, using php

but why different between ie and firefox, is it a css thing

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@haggoauthorJan 24.2007 — <?Php

$strUserName = "????????";

$strPassword = "???????";

$strServerName = "localhost";

$strDataBaseName = "??????";

$Server_Connection = Mysql_Connect($strServerName, $strUserName,$strPassword)


or Die("Error #1 - Can not connect to the database.");

$Database_Connection = Mysql_Select_Db($strDataBaseName, $Server_Connection)


Or Die("Error #2 - Can connect to database but can not select database");


Function GrabPageInfo($strPage,$strItem)

{

$Sql_Info = Mysql_Query("SELECT * FROM Pages Where Page_Ref = '$strPage' and Item_Name = '$strItem';",$GLOBALS['Server_Connection'])
Or Die("Error #Menu0121");

While ($strInfo = Mysql_Fetch_Array($Sql_Info))
{
echo $strInfo[Html_Code];
}
}

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

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

<?Php

include("con2.php");

Echo GrabPageInfo("PRICES","MAIN_TEXT");

?>
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@CharlesJan 24.2007 — You've got bigger problems than that. Your page is an oleo of HTML and XHTML. And What's up with the byte order mark at the very beginning of the page?
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@haggoauthorJan 24.2007 — i have had this code working many other places on the same host, no problem, i conpared that, matched the database up, completey, such as table strurture, and encoding langs, same in, same host

i can not find the difference, any see it ?
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@haggoauthorJan 24.2007 — whats oleo means, i have no idea about the byte mark, that is the whole code, lol
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@CharlesJan 24.2007 — Start by correcting these errors http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.miniventure.co.uk%2Fprices2.php . Then try using CSS to specify a font-family that supports that character.
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@haggoauthorJan 24.2007 — I tryed some more code and the problem seemed to be, when the html code was being grabed from the mysql table

but then i made

http://www.miniventure.co.uk/prices3.php

which code is

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

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

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<body>

? £

</body>

</html>



simple, eh

now in firefox, appears very wrong and IE works

eh?
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@CharlesJan 24.2007 — Try using "&pound;". If that doesn't work then follow my instructions above. Correct the errors and specify a font that contains the character.
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@haggoauthorJan 24.2007 — thanks, i made the content editor, do a find and replace on £ for &pound; works fine now, your a life saver
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