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Inspiring
Aug 9, 2021 7:49 AM UTC
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Strange £ Sign

Hi all.

I'm using the £ sign on an HTML page.

Todate this has been ok.

However today when I enter the £ sign it looks ok, but on the page it has a large A infront of every one and on every page and every browser.

I can't reproduce the A here so I've included an image of it.

Has anyone had this and know a solution?

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    Jon Fritz
    Jon FritzCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    Aug 9, 2021 2:26 PM UTC

    This is most likely a charset encoding issue.

    Look at the top of your html code. You should have something similar to the following...

    <!doctype html>
    <html>
    <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Untitled Document</title>
    </head>

    Make sure you're using the right doctype (html5's version shown) and character set meta tag (utf-8 should show all of your special characters without issue). 

    If you already have those set, share a link to your page so we can take a look and see if something else might be causing the issue for you.

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    Legend
    Aug 9, 2021 5:32 PM UTC

    I would advise not using the £ symbol but the html entity &pound;

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    Jon Fritz
    Community Expert
    Jon FritzCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    Aug 9, 2021 2:26 PM UTC

    This is most likely a charset encoding issue.

    Look at the top of your html code. You should have something similar to the following...

    <!doctype html>
    <html>
    <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Untitled Document</title>
    </head>

    Make sure you're using the right doctype (html5's version shown) and character set meta tag (utf-8 should show all of your special characters without issue). 

    If you already have those set, share a link to your page so we can take a look and see if something else might be causing the issue for you.

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    BigDingusAuthor
    Inspiring
    Aug 9, 2021 3:09 PM UTC

    Excellent Jon.

    That was exactly what was missing.

    Thanks for yoyr help.

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