Browser encoding problem

[Tomtanium]

I'm not sure where this one should go, but I have a problem surfing. Pages that I visit, download incorrectly, i.e. Western European ISO rather than Western European Windows. I have Autoselect checked and I can just refresh having checked the correct encoding, but why does it default to the wrong language?

Is this an ISP problem or am I missing something simple here?

Cheers
Tom

 

[tviman]

It may not be the wrong language so much as it may be that you don't have the proper fonts installed on your system.

There's always a better way. The fun is trying to find it!

 

[ski]

Most Web pages contain information that tells the browser what language encoding to use.
For example, I notice that some web pages use Western European(Windows), others use WE(ISO), Google uses Unicode(UTF-8), etc.
Autoselect tells the browser which language encoding to use if a web page does not contain this information.

What exact type of problem are you having when a web page uses WE(ISO)?

 

[Tomtanium]

OK, the effects of WE ISO are that when a page loads in the wrong language, in nanoseconds I see a page of placeholders rather than graphics and frames rather than a layout. Simply by clicking VIEW - ENCODING and selecting WEW it reloads correctly until the next page and I have to repeat the exercise. As already stated, I have selected AUTOSELECT, and still this happens.

Is there anything other than ENCODING that I should be looking at?

Cheers
Tom

 

[Tomtanium]

Since posting this question, I have changed absolutely nothing on the PC concerned, and the problem has gone away. I can only conclude that the problem was never with my machine, but with my ISP. Has anyone else suffered from these ad hoc problems?

Also, I noticed today that my firewall went beserk during the problem period. According to the log it creates, approx every 10 seconds I was under attack from hackers. Since I am not important enough to be hacked, I rather suspect that the encoding was throwing up an abnormality that the firewall saw as a threat. Any ideas?

Cheers
Tom

 

[vinnayak]

Hi Tom,

I am having a somewhat similar issue. I am setting the encoding to be UTF8 on my web pages for a Chinese site.

I have checked the auto select option in the browser encoding (View > encoding > auto-select) was checked.

I get a blank page when coming from a BIG-5 site (e.g. tw.yahoo.com) to the page I have written. If I do a refresh, it comes up fine.

This is happenning on IE only.

Is there anything that I can do to avoid refreshing the page when I come from a Big-5 site to my UTF8 pages.

thanks for your help

VK