if strings have £ (pound) characters pgadmin displays empty strings

I am running pgadmin 1.2.1 on Windows 2000, on a Postgres 8 database
(version 8.0.0) on a separate Win2000 server.
If my software (PHP) places strings with £ (pound) characters into the
database (into varchar columns in any table), then using either the 'View
the data...' or the 'Execute SQL' functions in pgadmin will show the data
as an empty string ('').
If the data is checked using psql directly then the strings are correct,
although the £ characters are not shown, but I can be sure they are there
because my software will display them.
If I use pgadmin SQL to insert strings with £ characters then pgadmin will
display them correctly. But my PHP software displays them with a Â
character in front, which is weird, and in psql the £ characters appear,
but are shown as a ¬ (or something similar)
Cathy Hemsley

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