Thank you for all of your inputs, Walter I have been using Microsoft Expression Web and turned the automatic BOM off and ensured UTF-8 encoding.
Brian my code looks like using £ <div id=\"ItemINDEX_IDTotal\">£0.00</div></td></ tr> and returns this to the browser: £10.00 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.