Parsing of Pound sign?

Hi,
I am retrieving the data frrom database and then creating dom ..but i am unable to transform "Pound Sign" with the help of encoding UTF-8 as well as ISO-8859-1....so pl guide me........thnks

Hi, our team is also having a very similar problem to the one described. I'll try to cover all the bases with the description below.
We are writing java code to interact with a web service that gives us product price information. Some of these prices are in British Pounds (GBP/�). An example element is : <FormattedPrice>�29.57</FormattedPrice>.
The encoding of the XML document returned is UTF-8. All references to pound sign mean '�' - British Pounds.
On windows, we have no problems parsing the output. However on Linux, the document does not parse cleanly at all.
We think that this is due to the platform encoding being iso-8859-15 rather than UTF-8, although I was told this rather unreliably.
The java code doing the parsing is:
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
InputStream in = url.openStream();
doc = builder.parse( new InputSource( in ) );
doc.normalizeDocument();
Then we use XPATH to extract the specific price element.
Our Junit test code expected results i.e
String result = "�12.34"
We see the response XML like this: <FormattedPrice>��29.48</FormattedPrice> with an extra character included.
Here's a summary of our setup:
OS: WinXp sp2 / Linux fedora core 2
JDK: 1.5.0_05
I've set the -encoding javac flag via ant. However I still get a mismatch.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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