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? showing instead of £ sign!


enigmabunny

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hey, i just recently did a database restore, but the £ sign has disapeared and a ? has appeared in its place. does anyone know why this would have happened?

 

 

have you checked the currency symbol in the admin section? I would advise you reset it there, update and hopefully it should come out again.

 

regards, web-junkies

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It's probably caused by a conflict between the encoding used in your database and whatever your CHARSET is set to in your store.

 

For instance osCommerce 2.2, by default, uses a CHARSET of ISO 8859-1. However this character set is outdated; many hosts set UTF-8 as the default encoding for their databases.

 

I actually have this scenario in my sandbox site (ISO 8859-1 for the website but UTF-8 for the database) and have seen the pound sterling symbol do exactly what you've described, turn into a question mark.

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