title: Pound symbol display
body: <p>I have an mvc solution with a standard view using _Layout page for layout. Layout page has charset=utf-8 set in the header like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;head&gt;
      &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>For some reason, when I type "£" symbol in the view I get it displayed as "A£", with a dash above "A". At the same time when I put the same symbol in the _Layout page it's displaying fine. I got this resolved by using encoded value </p>
  
  <pre><code>&amp;pound;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but was wondering why does it happen?</p>