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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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! > > > --------------------------------- > Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
