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strings with £ now appear as Â£

I downloaded and installed Wing Pro today then added a project I had been working on in IDLE IDE. I am running with python 3.7 on Windows 10. The problem is all the strings with £ now appear as Â£. I use £ extensively as the UK currency symbol. For example:

if int_pence > 0:
    return '£' + "{:,.2f}".format(pnds_float)

What should I do?

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Michael Stroud
asked 2018-10-04 13:28:00 -0500
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updated 2019-03-13 10:22:26 -0500
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Is there an encoding comment at the top of the file?  I suspect this is a utf8 file with no encoding comment on Windows.  You could either add a utf8 encoding comment or set the default file encoding on the Files page of the Preferences dialog.

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answered 2018-10-04 14:51:00 -0500
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