Hi Chris, UTF-8 certainly does include the £ symbol (UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII so has all the ASCII characters plus many others).
I've recently converted my database-driven app to UTF-8 and encountered various issues that were quite awkward to resolve. In this case, I would expect that the £ sign string you are passing to the utf8_encode function is already UTF-8 encoded. One trick I found most useful was to convert test strings to hex. That way I could see exactly how the string was encoded. Edward > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Dean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 December 2006 12:38 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] utf8 encoding £ to £ problem > > > Hi > > > > I was just wondering if anyone knows why php's utf8_encode > function converts the £ symbol into £ > > > > Is this a bug in php or is it because utf8 doesn't include the £ > symbol (can't find a quick and easy ref to say if it does or not) > and as such the function outputs junk? > > > > > > Kind Regards > > > > Chris Dean > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
