Is there anyway to have a pound sign display correctly using Lynx text only browser?
using ampersand-pound-semicolon it just shows a u with an accent on top. using £, nothing displays.
Thanks.
A:
I guess your html is written in some other charset encoding than what the web server is telling the client. The easiest fix is to add
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
to your <head> tag. Another approach is to make the web server send the correct header. For instance:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Note that "utf-8" is just an example. Replace that with your actual encoding.
Martin Wickman
2010-02-23 12:09:47
You also need to have Lynx and your terminal correctly configured to display data in the same character set (which needs to include the pound sign).
David Dorward
2010-02-23 12:11:23
And the Content-Type HTTP header is the correct, reliable approach. Meta will be overridden by it.
David Dorward
2010-02-23 12:12:15