When posting special characters into editors and UIs manually in Windows, the process involves holding down the Alt key, then typing the ASCII code, then releasing the Alt key.
So, in your case, press & hold Alt  then type 0163 then release Alt.

But you want to enter this post via CFML? Not by your keyboard?
Have you tried the chr() function?

As in
<cfoutput>#chr(163)#</cfoutput>

Al Holden


On 3/1/2015 1:04 PM, Lee Fortnam wrote:
Have tried all combinations but when you look in Facebook it just displays the code and not the symbol. 

Still looking. 

Sent from my iPhone, apologies for typos. 

On 1 Mar 2015, at 20:28, 'Alan Holden' via Open BlueDragon <[email protected]> wrote:

This looks like it might be pretty close to your issue:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4382518/why-cant-i-display-a-pound-%C2%A3-symbol-in-html

"Educated guess: You have a ISO-8859-1 encoded pound sign in a UTF-8 encoded page."
Try HTML's &pound; or &#163; instead of the literal symbol.

Al Holden


On 3/1/2015 1:40 AM, Lee wrote:
Absolutely right, it is the following:

U+FFFD  replacement character

Will test in other browsers to see if it continues but I have never seen it on facebook before in anyone else's posts so just wondering what they are sending instead of the £ symbol in their cfhttp push to the feed.

Will update when I find the answer.

Cheers,

Lee

On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 7:06:32 PM UTC, Lee wrote:
Hi All,

I am trying to get a page to post something to a users facebook status page. I can get it to post as I have sorted out the oauth etc and accessToken etc and have the correct scope enabled etc.

The message I want to post is this: Just received £#NumberFormat(FORM.VoucherValue,'9.99')# in compensation vouchers for train delays and cancellations thanks to DRS!

But the £ symbol is coming out as 2 dimonds on facebook. I have tried sending encoded values, hex values, UTF8 values etc but to now avail. Does anyone have any ideas or a direction to point me in? Google does not seem to be returning anything remotely relevant.

Welcome any input.

Thanks,

Lee
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