Re: £ outputting £ signs
| From: | David Goodchild | Date: | Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:59:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: £ outputting £ signs | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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My suggesstion would be as your adding the data to the database convert the
£ to £
Thats should solve the problem however not provide an explaination for what
is occuring here.
Dave
"Bob pilly" <bobpilly@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:20030722132203.83413.qmail@web40505.mail.yahoo.com...
> Hello all
>
> Can someone tell me where i am going wrong here. I am trying to echo a '£'
to the screen which has come from a database field. I get the field by:
>
> $notes=%row["notes"];
>
> and the feild contains the data £25000, however when i echo this to the
screen i get £25000. I have tried htmlentities() but obviously that outputs
£ as it should. html_entity_decode() makes no diference either. Any
suggestions or pointing me to the right function docs etc would be greatly
appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>
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