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£ key

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Fairyloo · 29/12/2012 18:43

What is up with the pound key it's driving me mad when people put £50 or whatever and it doesn't show up as that

Is it me?

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HighwayDragon · 02/09/2014 09:06

I'm on a samsung tab tech, using the app

Nessalina · 02/09/2014 09:00

Lol, scrap that, & seems to work ok now! Didn't use to. I can write & to my heart's content now!! Grin

Nessalina · 02/09/2014 08:59

I think that the & sign (ampersand) causes problems on the app as well as the £ sign (pound). Very annoying!

wigglesrock · 02/09/2014 08:52

Yup, I get it on the iPad for lots of different things, I get the dodgy pound, Euro and the capital A with a mark.

AlpacaMyBags · 02/09/2014 02:31

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Tech · 02/09/2014 01:20

The capital A with a hat is caused when our server mis-interprets what your browser sends. From Wikipedia....

For example, the pound sign "£" will appear as "£" if it was encoded by the sender as UTF-8 but interpreted by the recipient as CP1252 or ISO 8859-1. If iterated, this can lead to "£", "£", etc.

This page

What did you send the "Sun 31-Aug-14 12:35:42" message from, HighwayDragon? Was it a phone / computer? Do you remember which browser?

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AmyMumsnet · 31/08/2014 16:24

Hi everyone,

Sorry about that! Don't know where the A came from, but we'll see if Tech do.

McBear · 31/08/2014 12:40

This is the case for a lot of symbols. I think speech marks etc have it. Some posts are unreadable.

HighwayDragon · 31/08/2014 12:36

what is with the capital a with the hat?!

HighwayDragon · 31/08/2014 12:35

£6

Gumnast2014 · 31/08/2014 10:55

This is still a problem on the app

2yrs later

Iceaddict · 01/01/2013 10:59

Also I noticed someone wrote a name on here with a hyphen over it and it did the same thing. Not sure what I was as I didn't look on desktop site. Thread was entitled. "What's your name?"

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Fairyloo · 31/12/2012 15:19

Thanks Darren mumsnet

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RemindMeWhatSleepIs · 31/12/2012 09:45

Thank you DarrenMumsnet! Smile

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DarrenMumsnet · 31/12/2012 09:15

My previous post looks OK on the desktop site but shows a variety of &pound combinations on the iPhone app. Thanks for raising this, I'll add it to the list.

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DarrenMumsnet · 31/12/2012 09:12

£testing £1 £ 2 3£

Pourquoimoi · 30/12/2012 09:30

Me too, I usually use iPhone or ipad app. It is very annoying.

OneOfMyTurnsComingOn · 30/12/2012 09:27

Me too. Very annoying.

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Fairyloo · 30/12/2012 09:22

Thought iI was just me!! It's putting me off reading about sales bargains!!

Sort it MN!!!

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Sleepyfergus · 29/12/2012 21:15

I'm on iPhone app and see &pound instead of the pound sign.

'Tis verrrrry annoying.

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CatherineMumsnet · 29/12/2012 21:12

Evenin all, £ works fine on the ole laptop. Will ask tech bods to check it out on the app.

TequilaMockinBird · 29/12/2012 20:34

I'm on the iPhone app and mine is fine Confused

thereinmadnesslies · 29/12/2012 20:33

Same on the iPad app too

sleepdodger · 29/12/2012 19:57

Same here- since update no pound

thinkfast · 29/12/2012 19:49

Same problem on iPhone app here