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

Educated guess: You have a ISO-8859-1 encoded pound sign in a UTF-8 encoded page.

Make sure your data is in the right encoding and everything will work fine.

Answer 2

Or for other code equivalents try:

£
£