Yes, in HTML the only way you should do characters other than standard ASCII is to use the HTML character entities by name. "&" and "£" (done in html as & and £) are often done the wrong way and then don't render properly on other people's browsers. The worst of it is that they do work sometimes, and they are more likely to work on the system you created the HTML on in the first place, so then you don't spot the error.

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