Jim, I am forwarding your email to the Unicode list http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html for possible answers from the list subscribers.
Regards, Magda Danish Administrative Director The Unicode Consortium 650-693-3921 > -----Original Message----- > Date/Time: Wed Oct 1 05:19:00 EDT 2003 > Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Report Type: Other Question, Problem, or Feedback > > Hi, > > I'm a web developer at Oxford University in the UK, and we > are considering encoding all our websites in Unicode to allow > support of non-western languages. > > However, we have a problem. > >[...] > > Our problem is the representation of the £ sign (British > pound sign - U+00A3). When we type this character into our > pages and then set the character encoding in our pages to > Unicode (UTF-8) (either by setting it directly in the HTTP > header, or setting it using the <meta > http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> > tag), when we view the pages we see the standard ASCII set of > characters, but the Pound sign displays as an error. > > This happens when we use Netscape 7.02, and IE 6.0 (both very > modern browsers. > > Is there something obvious that I am missing? If there is > then I would very much appreciate it if you explain it in as > simple terms as possible as I am a real novice in this area. > > Also which version of Unicode does HTML 4.0 support using > escape characters (eg. £)? > > With this problem with our pages we are seriously considering > abandoning Unicode for ISO-8859-1. > > Thanks in advance, > > Jim Leek > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > (End of Report) > > >
