I'm seeing "the £ character" as two glyphs everywhere in your post: Capital letter A with Circumflex, and Pound Sign.

0xC3 0xa3 looks like valid UTF-8, in that the first begins with 110... and the second is 10... bits. So Unicode E3 is what you typed? that's Small letter a with Tilde, which isn't a particularly unique character so I don't think that's what you were referring to.

So what character is supposed to be there?

How to correct: use the HTML Entity name. Then it's either correct or "escaped out but obvious what was meant" no matter what code page the browser is using. It also might make sence for the PM pages to bear a charset indicator so that browser doesn't have to guess.

—John

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: English Date-Suffixes by John M. Dlugosz
in thread English Date-Suffixes by Cody Pendant

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