Windows Firefox (1.0.7) showing ?'s for £'s

Hi guys,
I was at this Natwest page and noticed that it was showing ?'s instead of £'s.
Why would that be?
Also, how do I persuade it to show Chinese and other non-roman language pages properly? (i.e. with the symbols instead of the ?s)

Cheers everyone, j

 

Its working fine for me! :/

 

its working fine with me too, im using firefox as well...but the old version

 

Working fine for me in FF 1.5 beta

-Fr4nk

 

Did you get the English (British) version? I upgraded 2 minutes ago and I see the £ sign (<--that's a Pound sign, jazzle ). Though I thought only the Search engines were British (apart from damned useless Dictionary.com ).

NatWest have done bad code

Code:

<span class="pft-heading-personal">Opening balance of £1&nbsp;</span>

so it will look off if your Win region is set wrong.

Other language packs like IE I dunno for sure, but http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_otherproj.html may be it.

 

Naturally it is the British version, and I do know what £ is of course. (I even used the character on purpose, because some Americans seem to think that a # is a 'pound sign')

can't see anything wrong with that html, a little odd to include a nonbreaking-space though.
Windows region is also correct.

wtf?!

 

I think anybody outside the UK will see it odd, & # 163; is safer for £.

 

All good for me in FF 1.07.

 

oh I see - couldn't see the wood for the trees!
also your other comments make sense now.

it may well be my win-stallation - I am well over due for a reformat.

edit: maybe not - IE shows it okay. bizarre.

 

I used to get that quite a lot. Only ever saw it on forums though, quite strange :/

 

I think that most americans know the British Pound Sign (although i CBA to make it on my keyboard ) ; but the # is also a "pound" sign. What do you britons call it then?

Everyone forgets the ampersand - "&" .

 

I personally call # a hash, calling it a pound sign over here would be too confusing.

 

BT had a period of not calling it the 'hash' - because of the drugs connotation
they called it 'gate' or 'square'

 

well that's wierd, I just checked the NatWest page and it's fine.
I did fiddle with the font settings - maybe it was that.

 

The # is often used here for 'No. (number)' or 'item' in a list, so #3 would be 'item 3', not a quantity.

However, Wikipedia says:

 

Indeed. The #, whatever you call it, is used to denote pounds of ingredients in (very big) recipies. And on a phone, it's referred to as the pound sign.

Which reminds me.. I really DO need to make up a list of alt-numbers that make useful things. Like über's two dots (umlaut?). 252 for the record, 220 for Ü.