Why can't I display a pound (£) symbol in HTML?

Question

I'm trying to display the pound symbol in HTML (from PHP) but all I get is a symbol with a question mark.

The following are things that I've tried.

In PHP:

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); 

In HTML, put this in the head tag:

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

I tried displaying it using a javascript function which converts it to:

� 

I suppose it would help if I knew what I was doing... but I guess that's why I'm asking this question :)

Answer 1

Educated guess: You have a ISO-8859-1 encoded pound sign in a UTF-8 encoded page.

Make sure your data is in the right encoding and everything will work fine.