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Twitter URL encoding. Getting error when placing UK Currency sign in URL?

I'm attempting to setup a retweet button with some pre-written post text. However I need to place a pound sign in like so:

£50k

I've search the web and for the UK currency sign I've been told it is supposed to be replaced with the code: %a3

However when I attempt to click on the link I get the error message:

"Invalid Unicode value in one or more parameters"

This is the document declaration at the top of the html page I'm using:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

+1  A: 

Try escaping it as &pound; usually this is how you would do it when using HTML. You can also do it using &#163;

James  2010-05-11 09:53:59
Thank you £ worked fine.
bbacarat  2010-05-11 10:22:04

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