Capital A with tilde above precedes all £ (pound) signs

[poplarman]

Following an update the £ sign appears with a preceding A with a tilde above it when prices are displayed. tools/database tables shows the collation as utf8_unicode_ci and a browse of my page source contains a META with content="text/html; charset=utf-8"

 

Can anyone help please.

[MrPhil]

Did this update involve backing up the database and reimporting it? If so, it sounds like you might have failed to tell phpMyAdmin that the backup file was UTF-8 and it assumed it was Latin-1 (and translated the two UTF-8 bytes as two Latin-1 accented characters). You should see in phpMyAdmin that the £ sign anywhere in the database is the double-character now, if that's what happened.

 

Otherwise, if the server was updated, it might be that it's forcing Latin-1 display (due to misconfiguration). Go into your browser and View > Character Encoding to see if it's UTF-8 or Latin-1, and if Latin-1, change it to UTF-8 and see if the page displays correctly.

[poplarman]

Thank you MrPhil. I don't know what caused the unusual character symbol against the pound sign but you gave me a clue that allowed me to fix it.

 

Within the database there is a table 'currencies' and, within the field 'symbol_left' the £ sign had the addition. Changed it and wallah -all is fine.

 

Thanks again.

[poplarman]

Similar change was needed in table orders_total, field 'text'