money_format() function showing � instead of local currency symbol (pound)

Question

Does anyone have any idea why money_format() is showing � instead of pound sign (£).

The function performs fine on my local server, but when I upload it to my remote server if renders incorrectly.

Does anyone know a solution?

Is the `Content-Type` header different on your local and remote server? Have you changed the charset? — alex, May 19 '11 at 14:11

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 19 '11 at 14:13

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You need to use £, not £

answered May 19 '11 at 14:13

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you should be able to use the £ symbol if the encoding is correct (ie UTF-8), but +1 because `£` will work regardless of encoding. – Spudley May 19 '11 at 14:15
Yeah you're right. I always use £ though. At leat you'll know it'll work wherever you use it that way and it allows me to keep my coding consistent. – May 19 '11 at 14:16
@dotty: entity-encode the output prior to sending it to the browser, either with `htmlentities()` or similar, or even just `str_replace()` or `strtr()`, etc. But I'd consider fixing your charset to UTF-8 as a higher priority. – Spudley May 19 '11 at 14:19
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try `setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_GB.UTF-8');` – May 19 '11 at 14:19
setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_GB.UTF-8'); Worked for me – dotty May 19 '11 at 14:30
Good stuff. Spudley's right, though, you should look at your page charset encoding to make sure it's correct. – May 19 '11 at 14:32
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`setlocale(LC_MONETARY, 'en_GB.UTF-8');` fixed it for me. Both my local and remote server were serving the content-type header `text/html; charset=UTF-8`. It wasn't a browser character issue, as the � symbol was also visible when viewing the output in a terminal window (with cURL) – Ade Jun 08 '16 at 14:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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Quoted from Gumbo

The character � is the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (U+FFFD). It is used when there was an error within an UTF code:

FFFD � REPLACEMENT CHARACTER

used to replace an incoming character whose value is unknown or unrepresentable in Unicode

edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

Community

answered May 19 '11 at 14:20

Phill Pafford

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