Pound (£) sign prefixed with Â

Hi,
I've setup a form which processes/emails the data using PHP.
The form gathers data including price (in GBP). When the form
results come in by email, the £ sign is prefixed with a
Â. Is there a way I can change the php script to remove this
character?
The form calculates the price using javascript so the 'total'
field uses:
document.getElementById('total1').value="\u00A3"+total1.toFixed(2);
I've got this in the PHP doc: $total1 = $_POST['total1'];
I'm quite new to this so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

drennan_uk wrote:
> I've setup a form which processes/emails the data using
PHP. The form gathers
> data including price (in GBP). When the form results
come in by email, the ?
> sign is prefixed with a ?. Is there a way I can change
the php script to remove
> this character?
The question mark is caused by mixing different encoding
(Latin-1 and
UTF-8).
> The form calculates the price using javascript so the
'total' field uses:
>
>
document.getElementById('total1').value="\u00A3"+total1.toFixed(2);
Change this to:
document.getElementById('total1').value=total1.toFixed(2);
> I've got this in the PHP doc: $total1 =
$_POST['total1'];
Change this to:
$total1 = '£' . $_POST['total1'];
I haven't tested it, but I think it should solve your
problem.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

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