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UK Pound Sign showing as £ when page uploaded
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 11:33 am
by Escapeww
Hi,
I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction, just started to use WYSIWYG Web Builder (seems to be great!) but have one problem I can't seem to fix. When I enter a '£' sign it displays fine in the software but when the page is uploaded it's showing as £. If I insert it as a symbol it displays fine, but I really could do with being able to just type it.
Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance
Darren
Re: UK Pound Sign showing as £ when page uploaded
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 11:44 am
by Pablo
Did you insert the symbol via 'Insert Symbol'?
Re: UK Pound Sign showing as £ when page uploaded
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 11:48 am
by Escapeww
Hi,
Yes when I click insert Symbol and select £ it displays fine, but when I just type a £ it seems to add the extra character?
Any ideas?
Many thanks
Re: UK Pound Sign showing as £ when page uploaded
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 12:15 pm
by Pablo
It may be related to the selected character set (in page properties) or font.
I have tried it on my computer via alt+0163 and that works correctly.
Re: UK Pound Sign showing as £ when page uploaded
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 1:25 pm
by Bluesman
Escapeww wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2019 11:48 am
Hi,
Yes when I click insert Symbol and select £ it displays fine, but when I just type a £ it seems to add the extra character?
Any ideas?
Also note that the font you use must be websafe.
Re: UK Pound Sign showing as £ when page uploaded
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 2:44 pm
by BaconFries
As Pablo's reply, this is related to the character set you have selected in Page Properties->Language-Character Set. Ensure that it is set to Unicode (UTF-8).
Re: UK Pound Sign showing as £ when page uploaded
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 2:58 pm
by Escapeww
Hi...thanks for everyones help.
The pages are set to Unicode (UTF-8), and I have tried various fonts, Arial, Times New Roman etc...pretty much all the web safe ones.
The problems goes away, i.e. I type £ on the keyboard and get £ uploaded when I change the page to ISO-8859-1 US/Western, but I'm not sure what the implications might be by changing all pages to this?
Many thanks
Darren