Confused by a ?

[Fast Finger]

Hi all,
Strange one this, and i may just be missing the whole point, but what is it when some one puts ?00 or ?50 etc for a price?

I figure its something to do with keyboard language conversions as ive seen it a few times, so what number does the ? translate to?

Surely its not just a term, as it leaves too much room for varience.

Can someone enlighten me pelase?

(i have a link with a few examples on if it helps)

Cheers, Mark

 

[Stu DemonD]

Give us a link then!?

 

[Fast Finger]

http://www.wwtcc.com/secondhand.html

 

[Trancendental]

Is it not just meant to be a £ or $ sign that got messed up with incorrect Unicode or something?

 

[Trancendental]

http://www.wwtcc.com/secondhand.html

All I see are normal prices, e.g:

£200-00

£150-00

 

[GhostWKD]

All I see are normal prices, e.g:

£200-00

£150-00

:yeahthat:

 

[Fast Finger]

Strange,

The top one for me is displayed as ?00-00

What do you guys see?

 

[GhostWKD]

top one £200-00

 

[MATT 68]

All I see are normal prices, e.g:

£200-00

£150-00

Me too

 

[Stu DemonD]

I see normal £s as well.

What o/s are you using?

 

[Trancendental]

I see normal £s as well.

What o/s are you using?

And what viruses are you running?

Maybe its your browser, it might be configured incorrectly.

 

[Bunny]

I also see £'s.......

 

[Fast Finger]

Think its time for a format.

Im running Windows XP, but i do have a virus or two that i have not been able to get rid of. Was intending to take Wednesday and do it then.

 

[arc]

just check the regional settings are correct, and the encoding is set to ISO if you are using IE

 

[Trancendental]

IF you know what the viruses are delelte them from MSDOS mode.

If you do format, Partition your Hard Drive and Install Win98 on one first then install Win XP on the other.

Use Win98 for manual virus hunting only and don't install nothing using the win98 os and do not connect it to the internet unless its an emergency.

Hopefully you'll never have to format again

 

[Fast Finger]

Cheers, i think i may just do that.

 

[Morritt]

actually this is the webserver/web developers fault 99% of the time, in HTML the £ is supposed to be written as £pound; [http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp], however some lazy people (myself included) sometimes use £xx.xx, depending on the character encoding the page uses this (and certain other characters such as ') *may* appear as a ? as the browser does not know how to show it.

 

[Morritt]

try viewing the source of the page, if you can see the £ symbol then its probably a case of what i said above. just checked the page you linked and they use the £ symbol not the correct html code

 

[bulldog5046]

well done morritt was just going to say the same thing, its either server configeration or the coding