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Asked: 2026-05-31T16:24:15+00:00

Possible Duplicate: Encoding issue: £ pound symbol appearing as <?> symbol I am doing

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Encoding issue: £ pound symbol appearing as <?> symbol

I am doing some basic echo statements and when i use echo “£” it puts a capital A before the pound sign any ideas why?

 echo ("£"):

 output = A£

the A has a symbol above.

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  1. Editorial Team

    There are several ways to do this pragmatically:

    <?php
echo chr(163);
printf("%c", 163);
echo "&pound;"; //preferred for HTML
?>

    Another way to do this more “manually” would be to save your files in UTF-8 encoding.

    See here for more information.

    Here’s a screenshot of the results:

    results

    As stated by primatology, if you’re going to be ouputting to HTML, make sure to include the proper encoding header for HTML. This should be inserted between your <head> tags.

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