"Auto-Select" encoding failure

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Keith Pocock

I look after 7 pc's at work, all running Windows XP Pro, all with IE6 SP1.

I notice that IE6 fails to identify Unicode (UTF8) pages. As the number of
websites using this encoding increases, I have resorted to setting it
manually under View-Encoding.

Since all of the machines I know have this problem, I was suprised not to be
able to pick up any hits searching newsgroups. Do I happen to have the only
6 machines that exhibit the problem?

A sample website: www.dabs.com where every price shows has  before the £
sign, and "you're in home > product View" is mutated into "youâ?Tre in home
product View"
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If I am missing a setting please tell me...

Keith P.
 
This is what I got from the source code of the site.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset='iso-8859-1'" />
 
H Leboeuf said:
This is what I got from the source code of the site.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset='iso-8859-1'" />
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The HTML on that page is too complicated for me, but my IE6 SP1 chooses
UTF-8 and displays the page properly.
In Viiew | Encoding is AutoSelect checked?
 
When back to the site this morning and my View/Encoding was changed to UTF8
for that page.
Looking at the source code again I was unable to find any reference to UTF8
on the page.
How UTF8 is selected when viewed is beyond me also.
 
A sample website: www.dabs.com where every price shows
has  before the £ sign, and "you're in home > product View"
is mutated into "youâ?Tre in home > product View"
Click to expand...

Has it been fixed?

No sign of either of those problems. In particular I suspect the text
is different because I can't see that item in the Home menu.
The closest that I have to "product View" would be Shop by Brand.
In any case all of the headings that I have seen display the apostrophe
in "you're in home" correctly. My View Encoding is always Auto-Select,
Unicode (UTF-8).

You may be interested in my suggestion to Andrew McDonald
in his similar discussion: IE chooses wrong page encoding


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
 
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