We are working on an upgrade of uShop (V3) for a client but when the Order Information page is displayed with the HTML cart below, an  symbol appears before the £ symbol.
This is also displayed on the order "Thank You" page and when we read the order via the Order Reader.
We have checked the settings in ushop-languages.pl and $lang_currency_symbol = '£';
Please help! 1|1|strange symbol|Charlie Edmunds|cedmunds@uburst.com|17:56:58|08/02/2000|Hi Julian,
Just want to verify that you uploaded all but your class files in text mode and your class files in binary mode.
Julian, can I have the url for your site so I can take a look at it?
Thanks, Charlie Edmunds 2|2|Strange Symbol ( Â )|Julian|solutions@yourservice.co.uk|13:38:38|08/03/2000|Please refer to my email response to the above.
Thanks
Julian
3|3|RE: Strange Symbol ( Â )|Bill Weiner||10:21:27|08/04/2000|Give me the URL and I will take a look at it.
4|4|Strange Symbol ( Â )|Julian|solutions@yourservice.co.uk|11:05:12|08/04/2000|Hi Bill
I sent an email with the licence no and URL.
The test site is at http://www.yourservice.co.uk/test01/html/index.html
The scripts reside on our secure server at https://secure.yourservice.co.uk/cgi-bin/test01/
Regards
Julian
5|5|RE: Strange Symbol|Bill Weiner||12:36:34|08/04/2000|I see you have a codebase problem on your "display_cart.html" page. Please change the codebase on that page back to "../codebase/" and then I'll be able to continue looking at the site.
6|6|Strange Symbol ( Â )|Julian|solutions@yourservice.co.uk|13:45:08|08/04/2000|I presume that you mean to change the codebase to "../classes/" as with all the applets...I've done that now.
7|7|RE: Strange Symbol ( Â )|Bill Weiner||15:00:30|08/04/2000|I just tested out your site (you should be receiving a test order)... and everything worked and appeared fine. I didn't see any strange characters before the "£" sign on any of the HTML shopping cart displays. Are you sure you are still receiving the "Â" symbol?
Try using the order reader to read the order that I just placed....do you see the symbol there? 8|8|Strange Symbol|Julian|solutions@yourservice.co.uk|15:36:16|08/04/2000|AAH....I know what it is!!
The UK version of Windows 98/98SE defaults the browser Encoding to Western European (Windows) and this causes the error. It's fine if I change the Encoding to Unicode (UTF-8).
Bearing in mind that we can't ask everyone to change their browser settings, what can be done to resolve this? 9|9|RE: Strange Symbol|Bill Weiner||07:44:37|08/05/2000|Hmmmmm.... That is interesting. So you're browser does successfully see symbols like "£" when on regular HTML page (like this one), it's just that when that symbol is encoded as in a POST, it is encoded differently. Very interesting.
As a test, try placing an order on your site and view the source on your "Review Order" page. Down near the very bottom (on a very long line), you should see a "hidden" field entitled "currency_symbol". Does it show up as "£" or as that weird "Â" symbol? Based on the information you gave, I'm guessing the "Â".
Also, are ALL "£" symbols on your order forms appearing as "Â"... or just certain ones?
Let me think about it over the weekend and we'll see what we can do. 10|10|Strange Symbol ( Â )|Julian|solutions@yourservice.co.uk|10:02:15|08/05/2000|I have send an email with some screen shots and source code. Hope this helps. 11|11|Strange Symbol ( Â )|Julian|solutions@yourservice.co.uk|10:26:48|08/05/2000|The funny thing is.....when I view your demo site everything is OK. The only difference, of course, is that you are using the US version. 12|12|RE: Strange Symbol ( Â )|Bill Weiner||08:15:31|08/06/2000|Well if the encoding theory is true, that would be because it only affects such non-standard ASCII characters like "£" symbols.....Which we do use on our UK Applet Reference at:
http://www.uburst.com/uShop/international/uk/
....which I think will give you the same results that you are seeing on your site.
In any case, we will look into it some more on Monday. 13|13|Strange Symbol ( Â )|Julian|solutions@yourservice.co.uk|08:19:11|08/07/2000|Yes... the same problem is experienced at your UK demo site.
Just in case we have tried accessing the site from 4 separate PCs and get the same problem.
Any more suggestions? 14|14|Strange Symbol ( Â )|Julian|solutions@yourservice.co.uk|09:49:55|08/08/2000|Hi Bill
The answer to both your questions is YES - the £ symbol was displayed correctly.
15|15|RE: Strange Symbol ( Â )|Bill Weiner||14:21:39|08/08/2000|So the tests at:
http://www.uburst.com/uShop/poundtest/
both functioned fine in your browser? Well, that kind of eliminates the encoding problem because the "£" sign is being posted in that test the same way uShop POSTs the data in the order process.
Let me take another look at the source code of the pages that you sent and see if I see anything strange. 16|16|RE: Strange Symbol ( Â )|Bill Weiner||06:28:32|08/10/2000|I took another look at the pages that you sent and still do not know why your browser is displaying that "Â" symbol before the "£"... but as a test, try placing a test order again from our UK Applet Reference:
http://www.uburst.com/uShop/international/uk/reference/
And let me know if you still see that "Â" on any or all of the order form pages. 17|17|RE: Strange Symbol ( Â )|Bill Weiner||05:26:40|08/11/2000|Well, whatever was going on your browser's European Encoding and Java POSTs, we released a work around by not even using the currency symbol POSTed from the Java side for those HTML cart displays.