£ outputting £ signs

[Bob pilly]

Hello all

Can someone tell me where i am going wrong here. I am trying to echo a '£' to the screen which has come from a database field. I get the field by:

$notes=%row["notes"];

and the feild contains the data £25000, however when i echo this to the screen i get £25000. I have tried htmlentities() but obviously that outputs £ as it should. html_entity_decode() makes no diference either. Any suggestions or pointing me to the right function docs etc would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for any help!


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[David Goodchild]

My suggesstion would be as your adding the data to the database convert the
£ to £

Thats should solve the problem however not provide an explaination for what
is occuring here.

Dave


"Bob pilly" <bobpilly@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hello all
>
> Can someone tell me where i am going wrong here. I am trying to echo a '£'

to the screen which has come from a database field. I get the field by:

>
> $notes=%row["notes"];
>
> and the feild contains the data £25000, however when i echo this to the

screen i get £25000. I have tried htmlentities() but obviously that outputs
&pound; as it should. html_entity_decode() makes no diference either. Any
suggestions or pointing me to the right function docs etc would be greatly
appreciated!

>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>
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