Strange symbol

[AsianOne974]

Here's my problem. I have a textarea on my page that will display text that is stored in the database. The text can contain html. For example, if

<a href="

http://www.test.com?criteria=1&current=2">Test</a>

was retrieved from the database and placed in the textarea, the hyperlink looks like this

<a href="

http://www.test.com?criteria=1¤t=2">Test</a>

where the second &current is replaced by ¤t. I only seem to have problems with &current.

Is there something I can do to prevent this?

Thanks,

 

[cLFlaVA]

&curren is the html code for the universal currency symbol, or, more specifically, "[&curren;]".

Would it be possible for you to store the data in the database as this:

<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.test.com?criteria=1&amp;current=2">Test</a>[/URL]

?

If not, what scripting language are you using to communicate with the database?

*cLFlaVA
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[AsianOne974]

I'm using coldfusion.