Strange Characters in place of £ signs

[VivD]

I recently updated some webpages and they seem fine previewed in browsers on my computer. When I uploaded them and checked again the £ signs had been replaced with ? or little squares (depending on which browser I used)

http://www.wyliefinewines.co.uk/wines/rbdx1929.htm

I uploaded the same page to some different webspace and the £ were normal

http://www.kereds.co.uk/rdbx1929.htm

Something odd is happening with another website

http://www.keredcraftsupplies.co.uk

The website displays fine but any newsletters sent from it have A with ^ on top of it infront of £ signs.

The websites with a problem have the same host - the website that is fine is hosted elsewhere. Do you think there is a problem with my host or is it me?

Thank you for your time

Viv

[drhowarddrfine]

Your character encoding does not match the characters used. charset=windows-1252 shouldn't be used anymore anyway. Try switching to charset=utf-8, which is the charset everyone should use nowadays, and see if that works.

Different hosts may already be sending that charset as part of the http header and that's why you don't see it on some.

[VivD]

Thanks

My host said they had upgraded the server to Apache2 and it was causing me an encoding problem. I am using frontpage (yes I know - but it is all I have.) I think it automatically inserts that charset, how do I switch to the other charset does this mean I cannot use frontpage anymore. Is there an alternative - free/cheap?

I am saving pages as HTM is this the same as HTML? does it make any difference?

Thankyou for you help

Viv