Currency symbol - pound sign not recognised

[bookworm]

I installed Actinic on my client's PC this morning and imported the snapshot that I had done earlier.

Everything was fine except for one thing - her version is substituting pound symbols (£) with 'L' throughout the site.

The Business settings are correct (ie use British Pounds) but I noticed that the currency symbol in the options window is also an 'L'.

I also noticed that if I tried to put a £ into some free text (eg a product description) it refused and just inserted a black block.

Her computer recognises a £ symbol because we typed it ok into a Word document. So it does seem to be something to do with Actinic's settings.

Anyone any idea what the L is going on?

Bob

[pinbrook]

please do a forum search using "pound sign" as your search term, there are many solutions already posted

[bookworm]

Thanks, I searched on currency symbol and nothing useful appeared.

[meden]

double click on the 'TaxInclusivePrice' variable (or whichever variable is being used) in the layout, then in the 'edit appearance' dialogue box that appears set the 'encoding' to 'HTML' - this should resolve the issue

[pinbrook]

Thanks, I searched on currency symbol and nothing useful appeared.

search on "pound sign"

[RuralWeb]

As jo says search on the error ( Pound sign ) http://community.actinic.com/showthr...ght=pound+sign

[bookworm]

I had better reply before my rather confusing earlier reply generates any more polite reminders to pay attention before hitting the send button.

What I should probably have said was something like - thanks for telling me to look for 'pound sign', I had previously searched on 'currency symbol' to no avail but I'll go and do it now.

I did indeed search on 'pound sign' which came up with lots of threads but none of them solved the problem.

However, a search on 'character set' came up with this:

http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=31385 (£ symbol changed to L) which is exactly the right answer.

Bob