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formatcurrency showing invalid character symbol instead of pound sign

i've got this code:
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      display = display + "<div id=""productsProductOuterContainer"">"
      display = display + "<div id=""productsProductContainer"">"

      display = display + "<div class=""productImageContainer""><a href=""product.asp?ProductID=" + ProductID + "&ProductName=" + ProductName + "&Department=" + dept + "&menswomens=" + category + """><img src=""images/md/" + ProductImage + ".jpg"" class=""productimages"" alt=""" + ProductName + """/></a></div>"
      display = display + "<p>" + ProductName + "<br />" + formatcurrency(ProductPricerrp) + "</p>"
      display = display + "<a href=""product.asp?ProductID=" + ProductID + "&ProductName=" + ProductName + "&Department=" + dept + "&menswomens=" + category + """><img src=""images/" + session("menswomens") + "bt_view.gif"" alt=""View"" /></a>"

      display = display + "</div>      "
      display = display + "</div>"

response.write(display)
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but instead of formatcurrency(ProductPricerrp) showing £ before the price, its showing an invalid character symbol (square). Any ideas please?

kevp75

you will probably have to change the codepage of the page in question to be uk. I know the server may be located in europe, however it may have been configured to be us, or some other country

kevp75

another thing that may do it, the DTD you use

b0lsc0tt

Besides the above look at the encoding for the page. This can be done with an html meta tag but is even better from the server. In ASP it would be done with ...

Response.AddHeader "Content-type", "text/html; charset=utf-8"

You could use a different encoding but utf-8 is one that should support that symbol.

Let me know if you have a question or need more info.

bol

b0lsc0tt

One other thought and maybe the simplest solution if it is an encoding issue. Use HTMLEncode.

response.write(Server.HTMLEncode((display))

bol

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