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Asked: 2026-06-05T14:38:48+00:00

I stored the symbols in a table in a database, e.g. country | currency_code

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I stored the symbols in a table in a database, e.g.

country | currency_code | currency_symbol | currency_rate
UK        GBP             £                 1.0000
EU        EUR             €                 1.XXXX
USA       USD             $                 1.XXXX
Canada    CAD             $                 1.XXXX

The problem is that the currency symbols are not valid in html so they show up as � instead.

Do I need to add another column to my table for HTML codes e.g. £ € $ or is there a simple function in PHP that I can use to wrap around the character to convert it to HTML?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Currency symbols are perfectly “HTML safe”. What you have is an encoding problem. You are outputting these characters encoded in one encoding (likely Latin-1), but your browser is interpreting them in some other encoding (likely UTF-8). The actual encoding and the declared encoding need to match. Follow Handling Unicode Front To Back In A Web App to see where your problem is.

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