Ok, I have a website where the pages are coded in php & html. One of the things I can do on the site is insert item descriptions. Now when I type directly onto the site a £ is a £ so no problems there.
But sometimes I need to call a page from somewhere else, this page gets placed within my site, basically the called pages are just html files. When I come to look at the site all the prices are showing ? rather than £ signs. Is there any server setting or anything that might cause this to happen?
I've seen things turn to ?s when uploading a file with the wrong charset selected in phpmyadmin. I'd guess you have some other sort of character set issue, but I'm not sure how exactly you're calling the files.
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Hi,
Ok, I have a website where the pages are coded in php & html. One of the things I can do on the site is insert item descriptions. Now when I type directly onto the site a £ is a £ so no problems there.
But sometimes I need to call a page from somewhere else, this page gets placed within my site, basically the called pages are just html files. When I come to look at the site all the prices are showing ? rather than £ signs. Is there any server setting or anything that might cause this to happen?
I am using PHP 5.0.4 and MySQL 4.1.16
Thanks
Jon
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I've seen things turn to ?s when uploading a file with the wrong charset selected in phpmyadmin. I'd guess you have some other sort of character set issue, but I'm not sure how exactly you're calling the files.
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Hi Paul,
The file/code I am calling is an html file, what I am doing is inserting this into the decription box :-
<iframe src="http://www.mysite.com/valentines.html"width="600" height="3450" />
However the same thing happens if I use javascript sometimes to call external text.
Also on my site I have a Amazon feed, this also shows a ? instead of a £ sign. Which is really confusing as the feed comes directly from Amazon.
Thanks
Jon
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Hi,
Does anyone know what the default MySQL character set should be? Or rather what is the correct character set for use with WSN Links should be?
Thanks
Jon
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Hi,
Have you tested changing the value of {LANG_CHARSET} variable ?
I had some difficulties with accents and ñ used at spanish language, solved changing it's value or just leaving it empty.
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Hi,
Many thanks will give it a try
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Try latin1 perhaps.