On Tuesday 23 January 2007 11:55 am, Dave Goodchild wrote: > This may be more of a mysql issue, but I am using php for my app so here > goes... > > I have a fee field in the database, and when users post events they can > specify entrance fee in £. In some, not all, of the fields I am getting, > for example, £7 rather than £. Is this an encoding issue? > > Many thanks in advance... Yep, sounds like encoding to me. This article talks more about smart quotes than the £ sign, but the recommendation applies for that as well. http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/stupid-quotes -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php