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Asked: 2026-05-18T03:07:52+00:00

I thought utf-8 would be able to handle just a neat £ instead of

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I thought utf-8 would be able to handle just a neat £ instead of having to convert to entities?

What’s the proper way of handling the GBP symbol with UTF-8 and HTML5?

(ps. don’t think the html5 part should make any difference)

update:

Here’s test document:

<!doctype html>  
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>GBP Test</title>
</head>

<body>
£55
<br />
&pound;55
</body>

Thanks everyone for your help.

For anyone else facing this frustration the issue comes with your text editor. Even Notepad formats in non utf-8.

SOLUTION:

Changed Read and Write formats to
UTF-8 in my text editor (PHP
Designer)

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just use the character. It will work fine.

    The symbol has a different code point in UTF-8 than in ISO-8859-1 of course. A ISO-8859-1 encoded pound sign will not work in UTF-8, and vice versa. You’d have to convert it.

    Related: When Should One Use HTML Entities

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