I am puzzled by this problem.  One box of mine seems to be unable to show the 
GBP sign in OpenOffice.  In any OOo application it shows a capital A with 
umlauts and then shows the £ sign.

In the OOo Language Settings I have selected as Default Currency "GBP £ 
English (UK)" just as I have on two other boxen, which work fine.

The locales are the same LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" on all of them.

Any ideas?
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Regards,
Mick