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benwalker82
Feb 10, 2009, 06:48 AM
I know there's going to be something really obvious that I've missed here, but I'd like someone to point it out to me and make me feel really stoopid!

Have recently written a basic website for my father's business, my rusty html has taken a looooong time to debug, but all works now... with one exception.

Where I've used a £ in text it appears on the page as £ - what've I missed??!!

Forgot to say it's live at www.lyndhurst.eu.com



michaelsviews
Feb 10, 2009, 07:05 AM
Forgot to say it's live at www.lyndhurst.eu.com (http://www.lyndhurst.eu.com)

Well first off when clicking on the link of being interested in this property I get a URL not found.

Just a thought but if your HTML was rusty than why not just go and use iWeb?

&Ingonyama
Feb 10, 2009, 07:47 AM
Add:

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

In the head or..

Try encoding the pound sign like: &pound;

mat4020
Feb 10, 2009, 07:50 AM
Try using the ascii html character code.

& # 163 ;

(no spaces)

angelwatt
Feb 10, 2009, 10:25 AM
The £ showed up properly for me, but I also have my browser set to default to UTF-8. I didn't see any character set declarations in your HTML. See &Ingonyama's post for more details on that.

benwalker82
Feb 10, 2009, 10:29 AM
Thanks to all of you - think it's fixed now!

a cat *miaow*
Feb 10, 2009, 09:28 PM
You might want to get rid of the frame-based layout to at least get some search engine ranking.