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£ appear as ?
Posted 04 Apr 2005 22:07:03
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04 Apr 2005 22:07:03 adam partridge posted:
im using classic asp and ms access and im storing some text in a memo field that containts a £ sign however when i call the page it apears as a ? anyone any ideas ive tried replacing ? with £ and it still has the same problemReplies
Replied 05 Apr 2005 02:27:17
05 Apr 2005 02:27:17 Chris Charlton replied:
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>im using classic asp and ms access and im storing some text in a memo field that containts a £ sign however when i call the page it apears as a ? anyone any ideas ive tried replacing ? with £ and it still has the same problem<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
How are you writing the character, via HTML character? ASCII value?
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How are you writing the character, via HTML character? ASCII value?
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Replied 05 Apr 2005 20:01:37
05 Apr 2005 20:01:37 adam partridge replied:
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>im using classic asp and ms access and im storing some text in a memo field that containts a £ sign however when i call the page it apears as a ? anyone any ideas ive tried replacing ? with £ and it still has the same problem<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
How are you writing the character, via HTML character? ASCII value?
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Chris Charlton <i>- DMXzone Manager</i>
<font size=1>[ Studio MX/MX2004 | PHP/ASP | SQL | XHTML/CSS | XML | Actionscript | Web Accessibility | MX Extensibility ]</font id=size1>
<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
not sure what u mean im just calling the field from the dbase as <%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("strname"
.Value)%>
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>im using classic asp and ms access and im storing some text in a memo field that containts a £ sign however when i call the page it apears as a ? anyone any ideas ive tried replacing ? with £ and it still has the same problem<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
How are you writing the character, via HTML character? ASCII value?
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Chris Charlton <i>- DMXzone Manager</i>
<font size=1>[ Studio MX/MX2004 | PHP/ASP | SQL | XHTML/CSS | XML | Actionscript | Web Accessibility | MX Extensibility ]</font id=size1>
<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
not sure what u mean im just calling the field from the dbase as <%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("strname"
.Value)%> Replied 06 Apr 2005 19:49:10
06 Apr 2005 19:49:10 Chris Charlton replied:
ASCII - www.w3schools.com/html/html_asciiref.asp
HTML Entities - www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp
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HTML Entities - www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp
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