title: Copyright and pound sterling symbol in Bash script
body: <p>What is the proper way of inserting a copyright symbol <code>©</code> and a pound sterling symbol <code>£</code> into a bash script.</p>
  
  <p>I am using <code>nano</code> as my editor and am running Debian Squeeze.</p>
  
  <p>If I copy and paste the symbol from windows, it works but it seems to paste hidden characters that <code>nano</code> cannot display and it makes it hard to edit code in the shell script then.</p>
  
  <p>So for example I want to be able to do this:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>text="£15.00"
  text2="© John Doe"
  </code></pre>