Re: Handling £ (pound sterling) symbols in content

Dave Howorth <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.xml
Organization MRC Centre for Protein Engineering
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Grant McLean wrote:
> You can also safely assume that the data is not in ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1),
> because that encoding pre-dates the definition of the Euro symbol.

> On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 22:24 +0100, Neil Hughes wrote:
>> The data contains '£' symbols

Err, 8859-1 does include the £ symbol though :)

and the newer 8859-15 includes the euro

Cheers, Dave
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