The "short form" of the headlines are destined for Ceefax - where 0x23 is £ and 0x5F is #...
On 3 June 2010 21:46, Nick Morrott <knowledgejun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 June 2010 19:34, John O'Donovan <john.odono...@bbc.co.uk> wrote: > > > Why the pound sign issue? We are updating our news CMS and in some rare > > cases older content in ISO-8859-1 is being pulled into UTF-8 pages and > > we are seeing these character issues. We are ironing them out and this > > will go away soon. > > The issue is apparent with brand new stories (the "Top Business > Stories" section containing the JPM and Crozier links currently > contain invalid UTF-8). I could understand why older Latin-1-encoded > story content could cause a problem if they are not converted to UTF-8 > before being blindly entered into a new UTF-8-based CMS, but why are > new stories/links not being handled correctly? > > Cheers, > Nick > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002