Likely whatever font the alert box uses does not have a character for the Pound sing.  I tried it in a Mac now and I got an accented capital A instead of the pound sign.

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hmmm...i tried this with:

Windows XP - IE7 / FF 3 / Chrome 2.0

and got the character to show up properly on all three

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Must be a font problem, as Phil wrote. On my Linux also appears correctly. ( FireFox, SeaMonkey, Epiphany, Galeon, Opera, Midori, Arora, Konqueror. )

Feherke.
http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

Well it used to show fine, is it an IE8 issue?

How do I change the font of an alert box is it relative to CSS fonts?

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Hi,

I just tried your code on IE8 running on Windows XP SP3 and it worked fine for me.

Regards,

Martin

Computing Design And Services:
http://www.webrevolt.biz

I'm getting: "Â" In Firefox and Safari in Mac OSx

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So what's happened?

I changed the CSS font family to
It made no difference I'm still getting a square?

And every PC has Arial, so it can't be a font thing can it?

 

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You can serve it (specifically targetted at the character alone) in utf-16 like this:
    alert("This is sterling pound symbol: \u00a3");
Otherwise, from the purely client-side perspective, the problem is the misalignment of [1] the encoding of source, [2] the guess of the browser about the encoding of the served text stream. Use of meta tag with charset specified may take away part of the uncertainty. But it still need to align with what the encoding the page is actually saved on the server. Without charset suggestion, it all depends on the caprice of browser's guessing routine. FF seems have better success.

I have a charset meta tag, along with DocType and it being X/HTML Strict 1.0


so it can't be that either can it?

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lol - then I spotted it... changed the charset to and all is well, probably copied the other setting from a USA page by mistake!

nice one tsuj!

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