# £ sign not printing

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-sign-not-printing/187889>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 1, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-sign-not-printing/187889 "2010-05-01T00:13:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![dmcclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/91b2a8/32.png) [@dmcclean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dmcclean)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-sign-not-printing/187889/1 "2010-05-01T00:13:02Z")

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Over a year ago I posted a question about why my £sign was printing in  
one of my page and not in another although the code was the same. I  
went through checking database type, collation etc and changing from  
Unicode to LatinX etc. in the layout all to no avail. I temporarily  
solved the problem by using £ or £ in brackets. I found the  
answer a few days ago. It was the word processor used. I probably used  
Ultraedit for one or notepad or Textmate or even Word for the other.  
The coding in the wordprocessor was to blame. I found out when I  
copied the RoR code from one page that was not working to the one that  
was and after changing the controller code as well; “voila” it worked.