[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (through Magda Danish): [...] > > 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: £ _ Marco