Pound (£) symbol displaying incorrectly

[Torq]

Hi,

I have a set of reports that I output in text, and open in notepad. It outputs a list of products and their details, one of which is price. Although it looks fine in Access when I look at the reports, after outputting and viewing in notepad the £ symbol has changed into œ.

I have tried just inserting the £ symbol as a string before the price, and formating the price field to Currency, but to no avail.

Any ideas why it is doing this?
Many thanks for any replies.

 

[RexesOperator]

The problem might actually be with notepad. Can you output the reports to Word? Word can handle non-alpa numeric characters much better.

 

[Torq]

RexesOperator - I tried that and looked at the outputted text file in Word, and it still had the œ character in place of the £ symbol.

 

[gemma-the-husky]

are your regional settings in control panel set to UK correctly. If not £ will probably become something else