? 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]

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]

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"monomaniac21" <mc******@googlemail.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]

>
Try &pound; for £
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i cant as it is the user entering the pound into textarea.

[Juliette]

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.