How to show british pound sign in an option menu using javascript?

JavaScript
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I am using javascript to print british prices in a select menu. If I use £ it prints exactly that in the select options but if I use £ then it shows a diamond with a question mark in the middle.

How can I show just the £ like you can just by entering the $? I am using ISO-8859-1 for my character set.

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Have a look at this thread

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use unicode ‘\u00A3’

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What should I do if I have made an AJAX request and return some XML, like

<content>!"£$%^</content>

I can output the string in Firefox just fine but trying to do the same in IE simply shows !" instead of !"£$%^…so obviously the pound sign is causing a problem…I am not too sure about how I can fix my problem I am having with IE. Does anyone have any idea on this one please?

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Can you alert the value successfully?

If not, it might be misreading the xml value.

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No unfortunately not…in the database the value is ‘£’
Then I use the PHP function htmlentities which converts this to £ so it transferred as well formed XML which meant I also had to add an entity reference in my XML to display £ as £.

This doesn’t really make a difference though as the nodes that the javascript searches through is still shown as £.

I have found a work around but I really don’t think it’s the best idea

In my PHP service I replace ‘£’ with ‘\u00A3’ and display XML
echo str_replace(‘£’,‘\u00A3’,$retXML);

Then in javascript I reverse things…I have no idea why this works
oMessage.getElementsByTagName(‘formname’)[0].firstChild.nodeValue.replace(/\\u00A3/, ‘£’);