How to stop  from being generated before currency?

Question

I'm creating a POS GUI system and have had no trouble with using any currency symbols in the program so far. When I brought another file of code across into my main class for my GUI, I now suddenly have the symbol  appearing before the '£' symbol I have.

I've tried changing the original files encoding to make sure its in UTF-8, then copy it over, but it still appears.

This is an example of the generating I'm doing for each component in the code:

btnSubTwoOptionOne.setSize(135,50);
btnSubTwoOptionOne.addActionListener(this);
btnSubTwoOptionOne.setBackground( new Color(-10027162) );
btnSubTwoOptionOne.setText("Meat Pie £2.20");
panelMainSubTwo.add(btnSubTwoOptionOne);

Hope someone can help me with this. :)

Answer 1

The problem seems to be that the source file is in UTF-8, but you're compiling the code using windows-1252.

The £ ( Unicode Character 'POUND SIGN' (U+00A3) ) is encoded in UTF-8 as C2 A3 . If you decode those two bytes in windows-1252 , you get Â ( C2 ) and £ ( A3 ).