Unusual symbol in front of £ sign

[raelyn]

This symbol, Â, appears in front of every £ sign in my product descriptions when I checkout in Paypal as well as in my shopping cart in a Safari browser. How can I get rid of the symbol?



Example

Product description is: Other Amount £

Paypal displays the above as: Other Amount £



Thanks!

[stefanie]

Hi raelyn,



Make sure your page allows for UTF-8 character set. The meta code in your page code should look like this:



<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

[raelyn]

Thanks Stefanie, but the charset is already UTF-8. Any other suggestions?

[stefanie]

Raelyn,



Could you send the URL of your cart so I can take a look for myself, and hopefully pinpoint the problem?

[raelyn]

Hi Stefanie,



Here's the url: http://www.stonewalters.com/blog/make-it-happen/theoptions

[E-junkie_Guru]

Taking a look at that page in Firefox and IE7, I notice the extra glitchy characters only appear for me when I manually change my browser's text/character encoding setting to something other than Unicode UTF-8 (such as Windows Western European ISO-8859-1), which apparently overrides the page's built-in charset spec. Normally, this browser setting should be set to auto-select, so it will use whatever charset each page specifies.