GBP pound symbol appearing as uknown char in shop

Question

Hi,

For every occurrence of the pound symbol (£) in my store, I am instead seeing a '?' question mark symbol in a black diamond. Googling has resulted in suggestions of charset - mine is set as utf-8 as below...

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

I believe the store was origonally set up in Os commerce. In the currencies table I have used the ascii code of $pound; instead of the £ symbol but again this seems to have no affect.

Any suggestions would be great

Cheers

Answer 1

Can you not replace £ with £ (or £ in OS commerce)

View to source code of the HTML markup and paste the result - OS commerce could be transforming it server-side which would mean adding the meta tag would be worthless.

Answer 2

Try using the HTML entity:

£

Not sure exactly where you're plugging it in, but that should do the trick for most situations if it allows HTML characters like that.