British pound sign not displayed correctly

[Paul Drummond]

Hi all,

I feel stupid - I have a web-page generated by compojure and british pound signs (£) are displayed as weird characters, whether I use UTF-8 or not.  My unicode knowledge is worse than I thought! :(

Can anyone help?

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[James Reeves]

On Jan 22, 5:18 pm, Paul Drummond <paul.drumm...@iode.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I feel stupid - I have a web-page generated by compojure and british pound
> signs (£) are displayed as weird characters, whether I use UTF-8 or not.  My
> unicode knowledge is worse than I thought! :(
>
> Can anyone help?

I'll investigate. The character encoding is set to UTF-8, but maybe
there's something wrong with it.

As a work-around, is it possible for you to use the '&pound;'
character entity in your website?

- James

[Paul Drummond]

2009/1/22 James Reeves <weave...@googlemail.com>

As a work-around, is it possible for you to use the '&pound;'
character entity in your website?

Yep, &pound; works perfectly - I didn't know about it actually! 

Thanks,
Paul.

[Perry Trolard]

Hi Paul,

This may be obvious, but are you making sure to set the Content-Type
HTTP header in your responses? Like, e.g.:

(GET "/"
[{"Content-Type" "text/html;charset=UTF-8"}
(html
[:html
[:head [:title "Testing character encoding..."]]
[:body [:p "Coöperation!"]]]))

If this isn't set, it's possible that your browser is using its
default encoding, which very well might not be UTF-8.

Best,
Perry

[Paul Drummond]

2009/1/22 Perry Trolard <tro...@gmail.com>

This may be obvious, but are you making sure to set the Content-Type
HTTP header in your responses?

Yes, I tried various values for the charset as well.  If I use the standard ISO value (ISO-8859-1 I believe) the pound sign is displayed as weird characters and if I change it to UTF-8, I get a different set of weird characters!
 

it's possible that your browser is using its
default encoding, which very well might not be UTF-8.

I use Firefox and have never changed the encoding.  I've just checked and it is set to UTF-8.

When I experiment at the REPL I get the following behaviour:

user=> (html "$")
"$"
user=> (html "%")
"%"
user=> (html "~")
"~"
user=> (html "£")
"��"
user=>

I am using google mail to write this and it has converted the REPL output for the pound sign to two dimonds with question marks in them.  The actual  repl ouput for the pound sign is a unicode string - backslash 357 backslash 277 and so on....

Strange if you ask me...