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Hi Guys

My keyboard has no £ key so if I need one I either copy and paste one or use
alt 0163......... works ok.
Problem :
When I put one in editor though, I see it ok but when uploaded displays a
small square box where the £ sign should be.
Any suggestions on what to do appreciate.

"Ed Mullen" <> wrote in message
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> Justin Time wrote:
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> My keyboard has no £ key so if I need one I either copy and paste one or
>> use alt 0163......... works ok.
>> Problem :
>> When I put one in editor though, I see it ok but when uploaded displays a
>> small square box where the £ sign should be.
>> Any suggestions on what to do appreciate.
>
> Sounds like a character set difference. What do you mean by uploading? To
> where? In what form? And what editor are you using?
>
> --
> Ed Mullen
> http://edmullen.net
> If it weren't for the gutter, my mind would be homeless.

I use WS ftp to upload to my web pages. I use Coffee cup html 2008 editor. I
upoad to web pages using either. I have tried changing the transfer mode
from auto to binary to ascii but still only a small box shpwing.

"Justin Time" <> wrote in message
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> "Ed Mullen" <> wrote in message
> news:. ..
>> Justin Time wrote:
>>> Hi Guys
>>>
>>> My keyboard has no £ key so if I need one I either copy and paste one or
>>> use alt 0163......... works ok.
>>> Problem :
>>> When I put one in editor though, I see it ok but when uploaded displays
>>> a small square box where the £ sign should be.
>>> Any suggestions on what to do appreciate.
>>
>> Sounds like a character set difference. What do you mean by uploading?
>> To where? In what form? And what editor are you using?
>>
>> --
>> Ed Mullen
>> http://edmullen.net
>> If it weren't for the gutter, my mind would be homeless.
>
> I use WS ftp to upload to my web pages. I use Coffee cup html 2008 editor.
> I upoad to web pages using either. I have tried changing the transfer mode
> from auto to binary to ascii but still only a small box shpwing.
>
>

The page I am refering to
http://www.steveonline.info/animatedsignatures.html

Scripsit Justin Time:

> My keyboard has no £ key so if I need one I either copy and paste one
> or use alt 0163......... works ok.

Or you could use &pound; in HTML, or you could use a keyboard layout
that assigns £ to some suitable key or combination. Switching between
keyboard layouts is actually rather easy and fast, once you get used to
the idea. E.g., the US International keyboard layout lets you work with
a normal US keyboard with extra features (e.g., AltGr+Shift+4 produces
£, where AltGr = right Alt; not too difficult to remember, since Shift+4
is $).

> When I put one in editor though, I see it ok but when uploaded
> displays a small square box where the £ sign should be.

Haven't you noticed how often people explain why you should post a URL
to illustrate your problem?

My crystal ball says that the problem is at line 1 of your .htaccess
file (possibly because it is missing).

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Scripsit Justin Time:

> http://www.steveonline.info/animatedsignatures.html

So you need to create a .htaccess file with the content
AddType text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 html

This will make browsers override the meta hacks that you now have and
that claim the document to be utf-8 encoded (it isn't). If this doesn't
work, your service provider has prevented .htaccess customization.

In that case, or anyway, you could alternatively change utf-8 to
iso-8859-1 in the meta hack. It's simpler, actually.

Or you could use just &pound;.

Or you could _really_ use utf-8, though using it for the sake of
including £ is like shooting at flies with missiles.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

"Jukka K. Korpela" <> wrote in message
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> Scripsit Justin Time:
>
>> http://www.steveonline.info/animatedsignatures.html
>
> So you need to create a .htaccess file with the content
> AddType text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 html
>
> This will make browsers override the meta hacks that you now have and that
> claim the document to be utf-8 encoded (it isn't). If this doesn't work,
> your service provider has prevented .htaccess customization.
>
> In that case, or anyway, you could alternatively change utf-8 to
> iso-8859-1 in the meta hack. It's simpler, actually.
>
> Or you could use just &pound;.
>
> Or you could _really_ use utf-8, though using it for the sake of including
> £ is like shooting at flies with missiles.
>
> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Well thanks guys.... now cured even though I didn't rearly understand any of
that. Just changing what you have put above as done it.

>>> In that case, or anyway, you could alternatively change utf-8 to
iso-8859-1 in the meta hack. It's simpler, actually. <<<<

Justin Time wrote:

> The page I am refering to
> http://www.steveonline.info/animatedsignatures.html

Couple of other points:

"All my sig's come with" - a grocer's apostrophe

"If you would like a signature doing a small donation"
If you would like a signature, making a small donation

"an animated sig'"

Some extra commas, and some missing ones...

--
-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

Beauregard T. Shagnasty replied to hisself:

> Justin Time wrote:
>> The page I am refering to
>> http://www.steveonline.info/animatedsignatures.html
>
> Couple of other points:

It just hit me. "a small donation of between £5 and £5000" ...

£5000 for an animated graphic? <Whew!>

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-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <> wrote in message
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> Beauregard T. Shagnasty replied to hisself:
>
>> Justin Time wrote:
>>> The page I am refering to
>>> http://www.steveonline.info/animatedsignatures.html
>>
>> Couple of other points:
>
> It just hit me. "a small donation of between £5 and £5000" ...
>
> £5000 for an animated graphic? <Whew!>
>
> --
> -bts
> -Friends don't let friends drive Windows


Which is just my way of saying £5 will do but if your daft
enough...........

Thanks for the comma thing. Now altered but maybe not quite right.

http://www.steveonline.info/animatedsignatures.html

Justin Time wrote:

> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty replied to hisself:
>>> Couple of other points:
>>
>> It just hit me. "a small donation of between £5 and £5000" ...
>>
>> £5000 for an animated graphic? <Whew!>
> [Please trim signatures in newsgroup posts. Thanks.]

> Which is just my way of saying £5 will do but if your daft
> enough...........

...and could scare away someone with money.

> Thanks for the comma thing. Now altered but maybe not quite right.
>
> http://www.steveonline.info/animatedsignatures.html

You missed the apostrophes.
All my sig's
an animated sig'

This sentence needs work:
"The longer the name, the longer it takes to create, so, ideally no
first and second name requests."

If you have a long name, it will take more time to create. Ideally, I
would not care to make first and second name signatures.

"Please contact [me] for more info...."

"with a white background. " .. Why not use a transparent background?
White doesn't look very good on my pale blue page.

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-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows