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Re: Problem on GBP Currency Symbol Start Again

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Melchert Fruitema

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Jun 25, 2006, 4:51:50 AM6/25/06
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On 25-06-2006 00:36 CET, someone composed this enchanting statement:
> Previously I posted the problem of GBP Currency Symbol on incoming
> messages from UK shown as "?". The problem was solved by changing
> Character Encoding to UTF-8.
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> Today I got a message from UK and the GBP currency symbol back to ">"
> again, although I don't change anything.
If I insert - in this message - special character £ (Pound sign, unicode
00A3), it is replaced by variable '&pound' in plain text, likewise >
(greater then) becomes '&gt'.

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Melchert

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Melchert Fruitema

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Jun 25, 2006, 6:01:50 AM6/25/06
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On 25-06-2006 10:51 CET, Melchert Fruitema composed this enchanting statement:
<...> If I insert - in this message - special character £ (Pound sign, unicode 00A3), it is replaced by variable '&pound' in plain text, likewise > (greater then) becomes '&gt'.
How silly of me, it was saved as html source ..., dude.
Please, ignore above!
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