Pound sign problems

Phil · 23-02-2006, 10:57 AM

This may sound an odd one but if I display a pound sign (£) in normal text (ie not a graphic) on my web site can anyone tell me how it appears to people viewing the site from overseas? It works perfectly for me (and I assume anyone else) in the UK but I have a UK character set as default (which of course includes a pound sign) but what happens if someone (say in the USA) views the site (when as far as I am aware the default US character set doesn't have a pound sign)?

DaveLegg · 23-02-2006, 01:22 PM

Instead of typing £, use £ that way it should work alright wherever in the world it is viewed.

Phil · 23-02-2006, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by DaveLegg

Instead of typing £, use £ that way it should work alright wherever in the world it is viewed.

Ah! thanks Dave

Waldovia PM · 23-02-2006, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Phil

....can anyone tell me how it appears to people viewing the site from overseas?.

I'd like to know that as well.

adam · 23-02-2006, 08:41 PM

Well it shows up fine if you use either £ or £ in the US.

Phil · 24-02-2006, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by adam

Well it shows up fine if you use either £ or £ in the US.

You appear to be in the UK so I hope you don't mind me asking but how do you know 'it shows up fine' in the US?

adam · 25-02-2006, 12:35 AM

I asked someone who lives in the US how they see them. But its not so much a British keyset but a Western keyset so although US and UK keyboards are different the same ASCII symbols match to the same hexidecimals. How people in china see pound signs may be a different matter, but I guess they have support for both western and their own languages.

If you insert this line of code into the page it will tell the browser to use Western (Latin1) keyset but in dreamweaver go to Modify > Page properties and it will set the page to one of many differnt standards.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

I guess you can then see how each region views your site if you have supprt for those languages installed on your version of windows.

23-02-2006, 10:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
Phil Test Supervisor Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ashopton Posts: 212	Pound sign problems This may sound an odd one but if I display a pound sign (£) in normal text (ie not a graphic) on my web site can anyone tell me how it appears to people viewing the site from overseas? It works perfectly for me (and I assume anyone else) in the UK but I have a UK character set as default (which of course includes a pound sign) but what happens if someone (say in the USA) views the site (when as far as I am aware the default US character set doesn't have a pound sign)?

23-02-2006, 01:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
DaveLegg Software / Web Developer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Nottinghamshire, England Posts: 158	Instead of typing £, use £ that way it should work alright wherever in the world it is viewed. __________________ Dave Legg www.dlpwd.co.uk

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23-02-2006, 08:41 PM	#5 (permalink)
adam Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: UK Posts: 181	Well it shows up fine if you use either £ or £ in the US.

25-02-2006, 12:35 AM	#7 (permalink)
adam Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: UK Posts: 181	I asked someone who lives in the US how they see them. But its not so much a British keyset but a Western keyset so although US and UK keyboards are different the same ASCII symbols match to the same hexidecimals. How people in china see pound signs may be a different matter, but I guess they have support for both western and their own languages. If you insert this line of code into the page it will tell the browser to use Western (Latin1) keyset but in dreamweaver go to Modify > Page properties and it will set the page to one of many differnt standards. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> I guess you can then see how each region views your site if you have supprt for those languages installed on your version of windows.