Re: Storing £ (pound sterling ) sign and displaying in HTML email
| From: | James Dempster | Date: | Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:06:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Storing £ (pound sterling ) sign and displaying in HTML email | ||
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This is most likely a character encoding issue. Check that the html encoding
is set to the same type as what your storing it as in mysql.
/James
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Graham Cossey <graham.cossey@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Could someone please point me in the right direction here please?
>
> I have a form textarea field (submitted using POST) that accepts free
> text that will include the likes of '£' (pound sterling symbol) that
> is written to a MySql database and later retrieved to output into an
> HTML email.
>
> I have been experimenting with htmlentities, htmlspecialchars and
> addslashes but still have the problem whereby I get "&ACirc;"
> preceeding the "£"
>
> Could someone kindly suggest what I'm doing wrong and what function(s)
> I should be looking into?
>
> Thanks
>
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> Graham
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