Assuming you have this Character Set declaration in your html head <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
use U+00A2 http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/latin_1_supplement.html HTH Martin-- ********************************************************************* This email message and any files transmitted with it contain confidential information intended only for the person(s) to whom this email message is addressed. If you have received this email message in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or email and destroy the original message without making a copy. Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Klop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> Cc: "balaraju mandala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 5:57 AM Subject: Re: getting "?" instead of "¢" On Mon Jul 17 08:55:56 CEST 2006 Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > I need some help from you. I need to display Cent(¢) symbol on browser. I am > getting ? symbol instead, what could be the problem, please explain me. > > Thank you. > > balaraju Hello, Use the method ServletResponse.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8") in a Servlet or contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" in a jsp page. http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/syntax/1.2/syntaxref1210.html#15653 But charset issues are tricky because all you files need to use a known charset. And if you use a database it needs to have a supported charset also. If your editor saves files in iso-8859-1 the problem is already there and the browser wil never see the right character. So you need to debug where the character is correct for the last time. Ronald.