So, it might be my browser, but whenever someone uses a British pound or a Euro currency symbol in a comment, it shows up as two ascii characters rather than th

So, it might be my browser, but whenever someone uses a British pound or a Euro currency symbol in a comment, it shows up as two ascii characters rather than the desired unicode character. You might wish to: 1) verify your database and code support unicode 2) use the utf-8 charset for your pages instead of ISO-8859-1 :)