You've typed some apparently reasonable text and processed it, but the result contains no sign of some of the characters you typed. A likely reason is that the font you selected just doesn't have a representation for the character in question.
For example, if I type “that will be £44.00” into an ordinary
(La)TeX document, or if I select the font rsfs10
(which contains
uppercase letters only) and type pretty much anything, the £
sign, or any lowercase letters or digits will not appear in the
output. There's no actual error message, either: you have to read the
log file, where you'll find cryptic little messages like
Missing character: There is no ^^a3 in font cmr10! Missing character: There is no 3 in font rsfs10! ``` (the former demonstrating my TeX's unwillingness to deal in characters which have the eighth bit set, while the `rsfs10` example shows that TeX will log the actual character in error, if it thinks it's possible). Somewhat more understandable are the diagnostics you may get from [dvips](https://ctan.org/pkg/dvips) when using the OT1 and T1 versions of fonts that were supplied in Adobe standard encoding: dvips: Warning: missing glyph `Delta'
The process that generates the metrics for using the fonts generates
an instruction to dvips to produce these diagnostics, so
that their non-appearance in the printed output is less surprising
than it might be. Quite a few glyphs provided in Knuth's text
encodings and in the Cork encoding are not available in the Adobe
fonts. In these cases, there is a typeset sign of the
character: dvips
produces a black rectangle of whatever
size the concocted font file has specified.