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Pound sign symbol in certain browsers

I'm not 100% certain that this is a Perch problem but here goes...

I have a site where we enter a £ symbol in a Perch text area in the CMS (Textile)

On the live website the price is output towards the bottom of this page: https://www.harinderghatora.co.uk/one-day-workshops.php?s=make-2015-your-year

On Safari and Chrome browsers only I get a strange "A" circumflex character before the pound sign, it seems fine on Firefox or IE.

This would seem to be a charset issue but UTF-8 is specified in the <head> of the website page and (as you would expect) the Perch edit page is also UTF-8.

Any suggestions?

Nigel Harding

Nigel Harding 0 points

  • 6 years ago
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
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The validator cannot find an encoding because of the errors in the page. I imagine some browsers are being more lenient than others. If it is only in some browsers then it won't be a Perch issue.

I'd make a start by putting your JavaScript inside the head where it belongs.

https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harinderghatora.co.uk%2Fone-day-workshops.php%3Fs%3Dmake-2015-your-year&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

Thanks for the hints