Hi, I have a mail script. The mail contains some pound signs (£). Some people are seeing the pounds signs not as pound signs but as ‘u’s, while others see them as pound signs, how can this be fixed? thanks
Anywhere you want the pound sterling sign to appear, use the ASCII code:
£ (just proves it works on this forum)
The ASCII code for £ is:
& followed immediately by # and then 163;
(I can't write it as just the ASCII as the forum converts it to £ )
This should work with any browser, and email client. (the emphasis is on should).
I've a sneeky suspicion that if you use stripslashes() to remove html from the text, it'll pass the ASCII as ASCII, thus, the email client may just see the code instead of the symbol. I've never messed around with this before (perhaps I should), but give it a go.
Anywhere you want the pound sterling sign to appear, use the ASCII code:
£ (just proves it works on this forum)
The ASCII code for £ is:
& followed immediately by # and then 163;
(I can't write it as just the ASCII as the forum converts it to £ )
This should work with any browser, and email client. (the emphasis is on should).
I've a sneeky suspicion that if you use stripslashes() to remove html from the text, it'll pass the ASCII as ASCII, thus, the email client may just see the code instead of the symbol. I've never messed around with this before (perhaps I should), but give it a go.
Perhaps drop a note if it works[/QUOTE]
Just to say thank you for that.
I have a site that has been showing question marks instead of pound signs. I've been getting nowhere fast with eBay Help. After I read your advice, I checked the scripts.
These showed the encoding as ISO-8859-1. When I changed that to UTF-8 the pound signs have come up fine.