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two00lbwaster · 25 Apr 2013 at 18:49

I was wondering why, in Firefox, I was getting character replacement of the '£' signs; . So I had a little look :rolleyes:

HTML validator link.

two00lbwaster · 25 Apr 2013 at 18:55

visibleman said:
Should edit out your email address

Ouch, thanks

two00lbwaster · 25 Apr 2013 at 22:19

simisker said:
Marketing emails are rarely coded with any craft or thoroughness; OcUK's newsletter is no different to many others in that regard.

It's a fools errand to try and create an email that totally validates, incidentally.

I know that, but they could at least use UTF-8 encoding and put a doctype in there.

two00lbwaster · 29 Apr 2013 at 17:25

I don't think that a doctype would hurt that much though. UTF-8 encoding?

For some reason, the charset is set to Western Europe in the HTML meta tag, however, the validator was picking it up as UTF-8 and I've seen similar issues recently where you get odd characters instead of £ signs when you use a mix of iso-8859-1 codepage with UTF-8 charset. This seems to be the other way around with the same result.