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Putting a £ symbol in HTML
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 7
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01490661
Message ID:
01490702
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44
Ah ok, my html code is currently set as follows:-
strHTML=strHTML+'<head>'
strHTML=strHTML+'<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />'
>In meta tag in head tag...
>http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset
>
>Character entity references in HTML 4
>http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html
>
>HTML entities for British Pound and Euro symbols
>http://www.electrictoolbox.com/html-entities-british-pound-euro/
>
>MartinaJ
>
>>I'm a bit out of depth when it coes to codepage, where should this be specified? In the HTML?
>>
>>Thing is the £ works fine in Foxpro generally its just not right when I create my email using CDO code
>>
>>Rob
>>
>>
>>>What codepage do you use?
>>>
>>>MartinaJ
>>>
>>>>Hi Martina
>>>>
>>>>This doesn't seem to work for me, still getting a question mark in the resulting email
>>>>
>>>>Rob
>>>>
>>>>>>£ & #163;
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>MartinaJ
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I have a program that sends a HTML email (calling card) using CDO, I want the email to show the pound sign (£), but instead the resulting brings up the ? symbol.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>My computer is set up correctly & shows the £ sign when I type it on my keyboard.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Any ideas? TAI
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Many thanks
Rob
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