Weird character PHP \u00a3 instead of £

Question

well I'm having a problem and this weird character is showing up '\u00a3'

it's suppose to be a " £ " symbol, but for some reason it's not doing that,anyone got any ideas why.

Answer 1

Set the correct encoding of the webpage output, add this to the HEAD section of your HTML

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">