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PHP Strange character before £ sign?

For some reason i get a £76756687 weird character when i type a £ into a text field on my form?

Solution

  • As you suspect, it's a character encoding issue - is the page set to use a charset of UTF-8? (You can't go wrong with this encoding really.) Also, you'll probably want to entity encode the pound symbol on the way out (£)

    As an example character set (for both the form page and HTML email) you could use:

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

    That said, is there a good reason for the user to have to enter the currency symbol? Would it be a better idea to have it as either a static text item or a drop down to the left of the text field? (Feel free to ignore if I'm talking arse and you're using a freeform textarea or summat.)