why don't ? signs work??

Help

I have a probably rubbish/simple question that needs answering. why don't ?
signs or & show up properly on my computer (i am using a mac - if this has
anything to do with it).

I have created a mailform using flash and a php script that asks the user how
much money they spend each month in ?'s but when I receive the information in
my email box the ? sign changes to this ?? ie it adds another symbol before it.
I also get the same problem if I dynamically load text from an external .txt
file.

Help Please!!
steve_st

Have you tried using £ instead of £ ?

yeah, I have tried this. I have opened up the external .txt file I am using and
tried any number of combinations to find the ? sign but just can't find it. I
have tried replacing it with £ and also £ with still no luck, I am
wondering if this is just a mac thing (I don't have a pc you see).

Cheers
steve_st

yeah, I have tried this. I have opened up the external .txt file I am using and
tried any number of combinations to find the ? sign but just can't find it. I
have tried replacing it with £ and also £ with still no luck, I am
wondering if this is just a mac thing (I don't have a pc you see).

Cheers
steve_st

Check the character set of your page, and make sure the font you're using
has the appropriate glyph. If no glyph exists, it will be replaced with a
hollow box or question mark. For instance, all your posts in this thread
are showing question marks; I've only inferred that you're talking about the
symbol for pounds sterling. It could be a function of the encoding (most
likely) or the font (still possible).


"steve_st" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

yeah, I have tried this. I have opened up the external .txt file I am
using and
tried any number of combinations to find the ? sign but just can't find
it. I
have tried replacing it with &pound; and also £ with still no luck,
I am
wondering if this is just a mac thing (I don't have a pc you see).

Cheers
steve_st

that's interesting, i'm viewing this forum on a mac - safari 2.0.1 and the pound signs displayed fine on my screen.

On 01 Nov 2005 in macromedia.dreamweaver, funkster wrote:

that's interesting, i'm viewing this forum on a mac - safari 2.0.1
and the pound signs displayed fine on my screen.

A lot of us use the NNTP side of the forum, and evidently whatever
Macromedia does to move stuff from the webforum to the NNTP side didn't
translate the GBP symbol £. I just added it at the end of the previous
sentence; see if it makes it from NNTP into the webforum.

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email: http://makowiec.net/email.php

nope, it's come out as a black diamond with a question mark reversed out.

thanks for your advice, but how do i check the encoding on my page? also, the
same thing happens when i view the information received from my php mailform
when i view the details sent to outlook express.

totally confused.
steve_st

My guess (and it's only a guess) is that you're copy/pasting the pound sign
from a Unicode font (such as MS Arial Unicode, but I know you're on a Mac,
so it wouldn't be that specifically), but have a web page that uses Latin-1
(iso-8859-1) encoding. The character codes can be different in the extended
character set, to which the pound symbol belongs.

The content-type meta tag in your head section should list the charset used
by your web page. Try changing that charset to UTF-8 and see if the problem
clears up.


"steve_st" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

thanks for your advice, but how do i check the encoding on my page? also,
the
same thing happens when i view the information received from my php
mailform
when i view the details sent to outlook express.

totally confused.
steve_st