Currency symbol inconsistency (£)

[dbpianos]

Hi - I'm experiencing some inconsistency between the way the Pound symbol "£" (GBP) is displayed in different parts of my store and between different platforms.

 

Setting the symbol by typing in the "£" from my keyboard works everywhere except the total box at the checkout stage, where it shows as "£" despite displaying correctly in the total box at the (almost identical) shopping cart stage. The suggestion made elsewhere of using "£" works when viewed on my laptop but shows as "£" on my Android smartphone.

 

A right mouseclick on the offending text allows me to 'inspect element', where the html producing the incorrect display can be seen, but I don't know where the html code is generated so this is not a productive line of enquiry for me.

 

Any useful suggestions please?

 

David

[satish]

Just edit this symbol again in localization section and save.

 

Probably some special character got dumped in DB along with this symbol.

 

Satish

[MrPhil]

On pages where it shows up correctly, is the character encoding UTF-8? Conversely, on the page where it shows as two characters, is the character-encoding some single-byte, such as Latin-1?

 

£ is incorrect. You must end it with a semicolon: & pound ; (I can't type it all together because this new forum software thinks I really want to show a £ .)

[dbpianos]

On pages where it shows up correctly, is the character encoding UTF-8? Conversely, on the page where it shows as two characters, is the character-encoding some single-byte, such as Latin-1?

 

£ is incorrect. You must end it with a semicolon: & pound ; (I can't type it all together because this new forum software thinks I really want to show a £ .)

 

It was the semi-colon! Such a simple mistake...

 

Thanks Phil