I think it's a Mudcat oddity. The thread title displays the £ correctly when the thread is opened. The encoding on this page is ISO-8859-1. In the list of threads it displays as garbage. The encoding on this page is UTF-8.

I can't see why the encoding defined by the 2 pages should be different, but it is. If I switch encodings, I can choose garbage or £.

I'm using Firefox 4 in Linux on this netbook, and entering this reply using ISO-8859-1.

Phil