> > http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
I think it should be "charset=UTF-8", in capital letters. I was looking into the IANA charsets today, and I don't remember having seen a lowercase alias for that.
It is the whole content value of the meta tag that needs to be quoted and case is not important.
There are five ways I can think of to represent the pound sign, the simplest being £
Although the doc type and charset declarations are required, all but the two-byte utf-8 repesentation of the character will display correctly even if utf-8 is not specified.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN" "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/HTML32.dtd";> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Pound</title> </head> <ul> <li>Smith £1,000 <li>Jones £2,000 <li>Allen £3,000 <li>King £4,000 <li>Haig ��5,000 </ul>
