Why can't I display a pound (£) symbol in HTML?

Question

I\'m trying to display the pound symbol in HTML (from PHP) but all I get is a symbol with a question mark.

The following are things that I\'ve tried.

In PHP:

Answer 1

You need to save your PHP script file in UTF-8 encoding, and leave the in the HTML.

For text editor, I recommend Notepad++, because it can detect and display the actual encoding of the file (in the lower right corner of the editor), and you can convert it as well.