J meaning £

[rainblue]

Why is J used for depicting Pounds Sterling £ in many internet articles?

[another-view]

I've never seen one. Can you give us an example?

[dzug]

It will have arisen through the use of a foreign keyboard/character set that translates into a different character when displayed here.

[rainblue]

another-view -- One recent site visited is http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/faqs-order-online.asp#bmd18

Question 15 Explaining the cost of puchase of certificates.

dzug--- Thanks for that explanation, but a Government Site (as above) resorting to foriegn tabulation? Tut tut.

[David Black]

GBP is more traditional if you want to avoid charecters that alter.

[hc4361]

It shows as £ for me. Have you got an unusual font as your display setting?

[another-view]

I thnk it's the site. It comes out as a question mark for me.

[dzug]

Shows correctly as ££ for me too.

[rainblue]

Thank you all for that. Would seem I'll have to dig deep into the bowels of the beast.
cheers

[dzug]

I think my original answer was correct but back to front - the site in this case is correct, it's your browser that has a wrong language setting.

If you use Internet Explorer, go into tools - internet options - languages and see what it says and amend accordingly. You want en-gb. As a pure guess it will be US english at the moment - the default that didn't get changed when your computer was set up.