Why can t I display a pound symbol in HTML

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I m trying to display the pound symbol in HTML  from PHP  but all I get is a symbol with a question mark   The following are things that I ve tried   In PHP   header  Content-type  text html  charset utf-8      In HTML  put this in the head tag    lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset utf-8    gt     I tried displaying it using a javascript function which converts it to    amp amp  65533    I suppose it would help if I knew what I was doing    but I guess that s why I m asking this question

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Have you tried displaying a  amp pound     Here is an overwhelming list

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Use  amp  163   I had the same problem and solved it using jQuery     this  text   amp amp  163        If you try this and it does not work  just change the jQuery methods         this  html   amp amp  163        This always work in all contexts

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Or for other code equivalents try     amp  163   amp pound

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1st  the pound symbol is a  special  char in utf8 encoding  try saving     in a iso-8859-1  or iso-8859-15  file and you will get    when encoding using header   2nd  change your encoding to utf8 form the file  there are plenty of methods to do it  notepad and notepad   are great sugestions   3rd  use ob start     in php  BEFORE YOU MAKE ANY OUTPUT if you are getting weird encoding errors  like missing the encoding sometimes  and YES  this solves it  this kind of errors occurs when a page is encoded in windows-1252 ANSI  ASCII iso-8859-1 5  and then you have all the others in utf8  this is a terrible error and can cause weird things like session start    not working   4th  other php solutions   utf8 encode        htmlentities        echo   amp amp pound      5th  javascript solutions   document getElementById  id goes here   innerText replace        amp amp pound     document getElementById  id goes here   innerText replace        u00A3      this  html   replace        amp amp pound       jquery   this  html   replace        u00A3      jquery String fromCharCode  163      you MUST send     so it will repair the broken encoded code point  please  avoid these solutions  use php  these solutions only show how to  fix  the error  and the last one only to create the well-encoded char

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Educated guess  You have a ISO-8859-1 encoded pound sign in a UTF-8 encoded page   Make sure your data is in the right encoding and everything will work fine

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You need to save your PHP script file in UTF-8 encoding  and leave the  lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset utf-8    gt  in the HTML   For text editor  I recommend Notepad    because it can detect and display the actual encoding of the file  in the lower right corner of the editor   and you can convert it as well

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This works in all chrome  IE  Firefox   In Database   table   field type  for example set the symbol column TO varchar 2  utf8 bin php code    symbol         echo mb convert encoding  symbol   UTF-8    HTML-ENTITIES    or  html entity decode  symbol  ENT NOQUOTES   UTF-8      And also make sure set the HTML OR XML encoding to encoding  UTF-8   Note  You should make sure that database  document type and php code all have a same encoding  How ever the better solution would be using  amp pound

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You could try using  amp pound  or  amp  163  instead of embedding the character directly  if you embed it directly  you re more likely to run into encoding issues in which your editor saves the file is ISO-8859-1 but it s interpreted as UTF-8  or vice versa   If you want to embed it  or other Unicode characters  directly  make sure you actually save your file as UTF-8  and set the encoding as you did with the Content-Type header  Make sure when you get the file from the server that the header is present and correct  and that the file hasn t been transcoded by the web server

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