? character displays instead of pound sign

[monomaniac21]

hi im outputting text from a db and where a £ sign has been entered a
? character appears instead which i cant seem to get rid of with a
simple str_replace. is their a way to get rid of it? and what is
causing it?

regards

marc

[Slant]

Re: ? character displays instead of pound sign

My best guess (and that's all it really is - I just figured I'd have a
go at this) is that the character set is not correct for what you're
trying to do. The '?' is often used when the character set does not
support a character that is being displayed. I know that the character
set can be changed using a meta tag in simple html.

I hope that helps somewhat.


monomaniac21 wrote:

hi im outputting text from a db and where a £ sign has been entered a
? character appears instead which i cant seem to get rid of with a
simple str_replace. is their a way to get rid of it? and what is
causing it?

regards

marc

[Kevin Wells]

Re: ? character displays instead of pound sign

In message <1157472098.278 021.59380@b28g2 000cwb.googlegr oups.com>
"monomaniac 21" <mcyi2mr3@googl email.comwrote:

>hi im outputting text from a db and where a £ sign has been entered a
>? character appears instead which i cant seem to get rid of with a
>simple str_replace. is their a way to get rid of it? and what is
>causing it?
>
>regards
>
>marc
>

Try &pound; for £
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[monomaniac21]

Re: ? character displays instead of pound sign

>
Try &pound; for £
--

i cant as it is the user entering the pound into textarea.

[Juliette]

Re: ? character displays instead of pound sign

monomaniac21 wrote:

>Try &pound; for £
>--

>
i cant as it is the user entering the pound into textarea.
>

Excuse me.. you mean you are accepting user input with your eyes wide
shut ?!?! No validation or formatting at all ?
Bad practice to start with...

But hey.. it's your app that will get hacked, not mine.

For solving the ? puzzle, set the form encoding to the correct charset,
set the page encoding to the correct charset, send a good charset header
and use htmlentities() *with* the optional encoding parameter.

It that doesn't help you, be more specific in your question.