Mr. Happy's point is that if you post to Mudcat assuming a non-ASCII character set not everybody will see your pound signs properly. My browser is set for UTF-8 and I had to change it to ISO-8859-1 to make all the money amounts visible. Mr Happy's first contribution looks fine if your browser is set for Chinese...

The safe way to put in a £ sign looks like this on your edit screen: £

Anahata