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Why does my store put Â£ whenever I use £pound sign

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14 Mar 2012, 3:18 PM

rainbow_pixie_star

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Why does my store put Â£ whenever I use £pound sign

Does anyone know why whenever I use £ in descriptions or attributes? it appears like this... 2 kits, SAVE Â£2! ( +£2.50 )

Theres an example here... http://craftjam.co.uk/directory/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=63 Look near the bottom at my attributes to see it.

thanks
Amy

14 Mar 2012, 3:39 PM

torvista

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Re: Why does my store put Â£ whenever I use £pound sign

...because the page html is telling the browser that the character set of the text is 8859 but the text that is coming out of your database is utf8.

17 Mar 2012, 2:33 AM

drbyte

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Re: Why does my store put Â£ whenever I use £pound sign

You recently upgraded, but apparently didn't retain the character set used in your old site.
See: https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=414