This is most likely a character encoding issue. Check that the html encoding is set to the same type as what your storing it as in mysql. /James On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Graham Cossey <graham.cossey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Could someone please point me in the right direction here please? > > I have a form textarea field (submitted using POST) that accepts free > text that will include the likes of '£' (pound sterling symbol) that > is written to a MySql database and later retrieved to output into an > HTML email. > > I have been experimenting with htmlentities, htmlspecialchars and > addslashes but still have the problem whereby I get "&ACirc;" > preceeding the "£" > > Could someone kindly suggest what I'm doing wrong and what function(s) > I should be looking into? > > Thanks > > -- > Graham > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
