Currency Sign in Pole Display

[stuart62]

I am writing to a Comm Port to display in a Pole Display and when I insert the £ sign it displays a question mark on the customer display. Have others had similar issues when displaying currency signs and/or know how to resolve this issue?

Thanks

Stuart

 

[JohnH]

SerialPort.Encoding Property (System.IO.Ports)

The default is ASCIIEncoding.

ASCII characters are limited to the lowest 128 Unicode characters

Use an Encoding that includes that sign character.