For some reason i get a £76756687 weird character when i type a £ into a text field on my form?
For some reason i get a  £76756687 weird character when i type a
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For some reason i get a £76756687 weird character when i type a £ into a text field on my form?
As you suspect, it’s a character encoding issue – is the page set to use a charset of UTF-8? (You can’t go wrong with this encoding really.) Also, you’ll probably want to entity encode the pound symbol on the way out (
£)As an example character set (for both the form page and HTML email) you could use:
That said, is there a good reason for the user to have to enter the currency symbol? Would it be a better idea to have it as either a static text item or a drop down to the left of the text field? (Feel free to ignore if I’m talking arse and you’re using a freeform textarea or summat.)