British Pounds Symbol "£" not rendering correctly

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Brian Manchester

I have an html file that has the "£" symbol in it for British Pounds. When I
view this document as an html email inside Outlook 2003 it appears fine. But
if I open the document through internet explorer it displays "Â" in front of
every "£". So all of my "£"'s look like "£".

I have set the Language preference (under Tools-Internet Options->Languages)
to use "English (United Kingdom) [en-gb]" and that doesn't help either. I
have also tried every logical encoding I could find (under View->Encoding).
Still no help.

Anybody got any ideas?

-Brian Manchester
 
all of my "£"'s look like "£"

Is the problem the font that the document is specifying
or the font that you want to use as a default?

Test for that using the Fonts... and Accessibility... dialogs.
I think that you would see your symptom in either case
if the Font did not have a Unicode characterset.
Test for that with the CharMap utility.

CharMap describes Unicode characters as U+nn
but never makes clear what the U prefix is.
For example, CharMap says Pound Sign should be U+00A3.
It also says  in Windows Western should be 0xC2
So your £ would be 0xC2A3.
Here's a site which you can use to check that.

< http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html >

<extract>
U-00000080 - U-000007FF: 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx

</extract>

So it looks right. (I.e. the high-order bits from the A in A3
are 10 so they become the 2 in C2.)

Otherwise, if the U prefix implied by the coding was different from
the U prefix required by that value, then I would think it likely
that your symptom would be a matter that Outlook 2003
compensating for that error but IE was not.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
 
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