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GBP pound symbol appearing as uknown char in shop

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

Solution

  • Can you not replace £ with &amp;pound; (or &amp;amp;pound; 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.