Cannot Submit Special Characters from Input Fields

[sboot]

Hi all,

I'm having a strange error with ASP.NET that doesn't happen with classic ASP.
I have a form with an input field and a textarea. I type in a string such as:

"$200 dollars and £100 pounds"

to either of these fields. When I click the submit button it should display the output on the page. The following text appears instead:

"$200 dollars and 100 pounds"

It seems that it is only submitting special ASCII characters and ignores the good ol' British pound sign. Has anyone else had this problem?

Obviously I would have liked to search Google on this issue, but Google seems to ignore £ signs and if i type "pound sign" into Google, you get all this information about hash symbols (#) for some reason.

Thanks for any replies,
Steve

[sboot]

I have now figured out what was wrong. Macromedia Dreamweaver has annoyingly put this line at the top of the page

<%@ Page Language="VB" ContentType="text/html" ResponseEncoding="iso-8859-1" %>

...which meant that £'s were missed out in the response.

I then removed the response encoding value to reset it to the default...

<%@ Page Language="VB" ContentType="text/html" %>

...and everything is now OK.

I could also set the value to utf-8, but that's the default anyway.

Hope this helps someone.

Steve