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[quote author="WackyWebs.net" date="1208016706"]OK try using the html version of the £ with the CI method and see if that works.[/quote]
that's not a solution, its a hack. And its based on the presumption that the intended output is an HTML (or SGML) renderer.
(fwiw, I'll try and replicate the issue at hand later to confirm its a CI escape/convert bug)