£ Symbol

[tryzard]

Please forgive me if I'm asking this in the wrong place or it seems like a stupid question but I'm a complete technoidiot!

When our members type in a £ symbol it appears as such while writing the post but emerges as a ? symbol when the post is published. How do I fix this?

Thanks.

[kat]

I'm going to assume that you're English and your forum's set to use British English....

Do you have the British English language files installed?

http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php/smf_2-0-7_english_british.zip

If your forum's set to use UTF-8, do you have the UTF-8 version installed?

http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php/smf_2-0-7_english_british-utf8.zip

[tryzard]

Thanks for the response.

I installed SMF 2.0.7 earlier but as far as I can see the language specified is 'English'. How do I find out the information you mention?

[Kindred]

if the language is English, then it is probably NOT UK English..   and it most definitely is not English UTF-8

[tryzard]

Ah, just discovered we're not on UTF-8!

[tryzard]

OK, I've installed the British English files and the problem still exists. I presume it only works if we convert to UTF-8?

[kat]

Sounds like a plan.

Read my sig, first, though. Just in case...

[tryzard]

OK, it's sorted (sigh of relief)! Thanks for your help. 

[kat]

Any time!