252791 - &pound is not displayed correctly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Justin Balthrop]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

&pound in html should display a pound sign. it works in IE, but in firefox it
simply displays &pound

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the webpage listed above
2. Select your region
3. View page with incorrectly displayed pound signs

Actual Results:  
&pound is displayed for every pound sign

Expected Results:  
the pound sign (£) is correctly displayed

Comment 1

[Robert Parenton]

The page you reference uses &pound10million.  The correct syntax would be
£

Comment 2

[Justin Balthrop]

Hmmm.. That isn't how the source shows up in IE. In IE, it shows up as "&pound"
which is still wrong I guess. I'm not sure why IE works without the trailing ";"

Comment 3

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

You shouldn't reopen INVALIDated bugs unless you give an explanation as to where
Mozilla/Firefox is somehow at fault.  If you want you can email ESPN to complain
about them not using standards, but this is not Firefox's fault.