[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (through Magda Danish):
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> > 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">
I think it should be "charset=UTF-8", in capital letters. I was looking into
the IANA charsets today, and I don't remember having seen a lowercase alias
for that.
> > tag), when we view the pages we see the standard ASCII set of
> > characters, but the Pound sign displays as an error.
The most obvious question is: are your pages *actually* in UTF-8? It is not
enough that you *declare* that they are UTF-8 if you didn't actually save
them as UTF-8 with your editor.
Could you put on line a small test page containing the pound symbol and post
the URL?
> > Also which version of Unicode does HTML 4.0 support using
> > escape characters (eg. £)?
It doesn't matter which version of Unicode it is, because the pound symbol
is in from day zero.
Notice however that HTML character reference must end with a semicolon:
£
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