UK Pound Sign showing as £ when page uploaded

[Escapeww]

Hi,

I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction, just started to use WYSIWYG Web Builder (seems to be great!) but have one problem I can't seem to fix. When I enter a '£' sign it displays fine in the software but when the page is uploaded it's showing as £. If I insert it as a symbol it displays fine, but I really could do with being able to just type it.

Any ideas?

Many thanks in advance

Darren

[Pablo]

Did you insert the symbol via 'Insert Symbol'?

[Escapeww]

Hi,

Yes when I click insert Symbol and select £ it displays fine, but when I just type a £ it seems to add the extra character?

Any ideas?

Many thanks

[Pablo]

It may be related to the selected character set (in page properties) or font.

I have tried it on my computer via alt+0163 and that works correctly.

[Bluesman]

Hi,

Yes when I click insert Symbol and select £ it displays fine, but when I just type a £ it seems to add the extra character?

Any ideas?

Also note that the font you use must be websafe.

[BaconFries]

As Pablo's reply, this is related to the character set you have selected in Page Properties->Language-Character Set. Ensure that it is set to Unicode (UTF-8).

[Escapeww]

Hi...thanks for everyones help.

The pages are set to Unicode (UTF-8), and I have tried various fonts, Arial, Times New Roman etc...pretty much all the web safe ones.

The problems goes away, i.e. I type £ on the keyboard and get £ uploaded when I change the page to ISO-8859-1 US/Western, but I'm not sure what the implications might be by changing all pages to this?

Many thanks

Darren