Question

I have a a strange problem that I can’t seem to identify the cause of.

When I use Zend_Currency to format a value to to GBP I get an accented A before the £ symbol. If ask it to return any other curreny such as USD the accented A disappears.

The code that is generating this is:

$currency = new Zend_Currency('en_GB');
$amount = $currency->toCurrency($value);

This displays

£ 500.00

If I set to en_US I get

$ 500.00

Any ideas of why this could be?

Thanks…

Answer 1

‘funny’ characters are generally an encoding/display issue. Make sure you are setting the script to output as UTF8 – check your HTML/Xml headers / content-type.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />