£ replaced with £ when message posted using Firefox

[deejaysly]

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Using "£" sign in a message posted using Firefox - The PHP/Firefox replaces it with "&#163 ;" and is therefore displayed afterwards by IE & Firefox as "&#163 ;". Note: remove space between 3 and ;

Using "£" sign in a message posted using IE - Displays fine in IE but Firefox displays it as "Ł"

Any ideas how I can fix this??

Thanks

[Klemen]

Hi,

Tried this?
viewtopic.php?t=1164

[deejaysly]

Klemen, didn't spot that! Many Thanks! I will try this later.......

[deejaysly]

Klemen,

That fixed half the problem but I still have the case where......

Using "£" sign in a message posted using IE - Displays fine in IE but Firefox displays it as "Ł"

Any ideas??

[Klemen]

The only idea I have left is find this in mboard.php file (open with Notepad):

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<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1250">

The above code is found TWICE in mboard.php, replace both instances!

and change it to

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

(note that 1250 becomes 1252) or to this:

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Refresh mboard page in your browser before testing and see if it displays correctly in NEW POSTS (not existing ones).

[deejaysly]

Klemen,

Both the 1252 and iso variants worked..... Thanks.

Which one do you think is best to be used?? (most compatible)

[Klemen]

You have 1252 throughout your website so I would go with that one. Some other people (who probably don't like Window$ very much ) would recommend ISO.

I don't want to start a debate here so use whichever you prefer.

[deejaysly]

Klemen,

Understood. It makes sense aswell with 1252 also being "closer" to the original configuration of the message board code.

Thanks for your time and support. It is appreciated as always!

Regards.............

[Henrie]

iso-8859-1 is the older codepage.
Windows later added extra characters and called it windows-1252

Differences
ISO-8859-1 is a charset that is widely used for west-european languages. It contains chars 'a' t/m 'z', and numbers and some symbols. It also contains accented chars like: à á â è é ë. It does not contain the euro sign (€).
ISO-8859-15 is a change of the previous charset. Some less used symbols were replaced with more demanded symbols. It does contain the euro sign (€).
Windows-1252 is based on ISO-8859-1 and is extended with more symbols like the euro sign (€).

My recommendation is:
The charset you use depends on what softwareprogram you write your html-pages with. This is because if the program uses another charset as is defined in the charset tag than some symbols might not be displayed right.
Use windows-1252 if you use a windows program to write the html pages because this is the charset that is probably automatically used by the software.
If you use a linux/unix, use iso-8859-1 because this is most likely the default charset used by the software.

For non western languages you should use utf-8 or Shift_JIS.

Greetings,
Henrie

[deejaysly]

Henrie,

Thanks for all that info! I have learnt something new today!

It sounds even more like windows-1252 is the best option for my site.

Regards............