How to get a pound sign

[Affilit]

Hi could some one tell me how to get a Pound sign to work every time I put a Pound sign I get a question mark.

[Affilit]

Humm any one every time i type in £ sign I keep getting this sign after posting ?

[Luckygnome]

try  "£"   

[Affilit]

OMG Ye thinks I have not tryed that  >

It used to give me a pound sign now the gets just giving me a ? 

[greyknight17]

Did you or your host make any changes to your forum recently? Any changes at all....

Are you using English or some other languages on the forum?

[elfishtroll]

.... I usually just type 16 "1oz" sign myself

[metallica48423]

have you tried converting or converted to utf8 recently? 

edit: http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=865

[Sarge]

If I remember correctly, another member had exactly the same issue and I fixed that by converting his forum to UTF-8.

URL to your forum?

[metallica48423]

Is this issue solved or do you still require assistance?

[NickC]

I have the same problem.

[metallica48423]

are we talking about this symbol: # or the sign for the british pound?

If the latter - are you using UTF-8 or have you converted to UTF-8?

[Sarge]

First, make a database backup. After that, convert your forum database to UTF-8 in SMF Admin > Forum Maintenance.

Also be sure to upload the smf_1-1-3_english-utf8 language pack after the conversion and select this language in Admin > Server Settings > Default Forum Language. The English UTF-8 language pack can be downloaded from this page:
http://www.simplemachines.org/download/?languages;lang=english

I have noticed that English and English-utf8 both appear as English in some SMF installations. In this case, be sure to try both entries and see which of them displays the British pound character correctly.

[Dannii]

The language pack won't matter. You just need to ensure that the database encoding matches the output encoding.

[NickC]

I converted the database to UTF-8, installed the UTF-8 language file and all is well.

[SergeantAsh]

I know that this is an old topic, but could someone confirm whether all Modifications language packs need updating to UTF8 versions after this conversion?