Unable to display UK Pound sign in tagline

[CScotty]

This is a new install of zc 1.5.3.

I've checked configure.php and english.php and both are set to UTF-8
The MySQL server and databases are set to UTF-8 and were created from scratch using this install of zencart.

I wish to have a UK pound sign £ in my tagline so I've changed my header.php thus:

define('HEADER_SALES_TEXT', '<br/>"Free Shipping over &pound;100"<br/><br/>');

Instead of the pound sign I see a solid diamond with a "?" inside. I've read every post that seems to be relevant and I really don't know what to try.

Very new to Zen ...so much to learn.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[stevesh]

Not sure how to advise, but it works for me on a bone-stock 1.5.3 installation: http://www,stevesh.com/demo

That diamond is usually caused by character set mismatches, so I would double-check that first.

[CScotty]

Not sure how to advise, but it works for me on a bone-stock 1.5.3 installation: http://www,stevesh.com/demo

That diamond is usually caused by character set mismatches, so I would double-check that first.

Thanks Steve,

I've checked english.php:
"// charset for web pages and emails
define('CHARSET', 'utf-8');


I decided to look at the source for the rendered page. it seem that I'm missing the charset declaration viz.
<meta charset="UTF-8">


The only reference to charset is in the content meta tag
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />


Using the Dev Toolkit the most likely candidate responsible looks like it might be html_header.php. Seems I'm going to have to trace through the logic so a pointer in the right direction might save me a step or two.

[lat9]

You can temporarily change to the "Classic" template to see if the issue is template-specific.

[CScotty]

You can temporarily change to the "Classic" template to see if the issue is template-specific.

Hi lat9,

Brilliant! The best ideas are the simplest. The Classic template worked and led to the answer which was in plain sight:
define('HEADER_SALES_TEXT', '<br/>"Free Shipping over &pound;100"<br/><br/>');

Yup, I used plain quotation marks. Lesson learned.

Thanks all!

CS