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Asked: 2026-05-18T11:42:45+00:00

I’m trying to display the pound symbol in HTML (from PHP) but all I

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I’m trying to display the pound symbol in HTML (from PHP) but all I get is a symbol with a question mark.

The following are things that I’ve tried.

In PHP:

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

In HTML, put this in the head tag:

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

I tried displaying it using a javascript function which converts it to:

&amp;#65533;

I suppose it would help if I knew what I was doing… but I guess that’s why I’m asking this question 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    Educated guess: You have a ISO-8859-1 encoded pound sign in a UTF-8 encoded page.

    Make sure your data is in the right encoding and everything will work fine.

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