Trouple With The Pound Sign (£)

[Chris92]

Whenever I the try and do this to pound sign:

htmlspecialchars('£'); //something along these lines

I get returned an unknown character followed by the pound sign insted of £ , though other characters have no trouble and im now all out of ideas if anyone knows why or can help the please do! and hopes this makes some sense

[murfitUK]

According to the manual at http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php this function only works on a limited number of html characters and according to the note:Note: Note that this function does not translate anything beyond what is listed above. For full entity translation, see htmlentities(). Might be worth trying htmlentities() instead?

[Chris92]

According to the manual at http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php this function only works on a limited number of html characters and according to the note:Note: Note that this function does not translate anything beyond what is listed above. For full entity translation, see htmlentities(). Might be worth trying htmlentities() instead?

ahh htmlentities() works! thanks alot :)htmlspecialchars() should work though as £ is a UTF-8 character isn't it??

[Synook]

htmlspecialchars(), as explained on the man page, only converts the ampersand symbol, quotes, and greater than and less than characters.

The translations performed are: * '&' (ampersand) becomes '&' * '"' (double quote) becomes '"' when ENT_NOQUOTES is not set. * ''' (single quote) becomes ''' only when ENT_QUOTES is set. * '<' (less than) becomes '<' * '>' (greater than) becomes '>'