Pictures Are Not Displayed on Web Sites in Internet Explorer
A Web page may display an image as a red X, or a placeholder may appear in
place of the image.
Covers also this problem: Web page that is encoded for the Western European
(ISO) code page might not display any images:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283807 (i. e. 5, 6.
W95/98/se/ME/NT4/2000/XP Jun. 4, 2003)
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The issue may be with your .nls files. Which may be missing.
This may also help.
This is a message I received yesterday from John Mann that solved his
problem.
He is using i.e. 6 with Windows XP.
Basically, I followed the instructions in the MSoft
Bulletin 283807 you referenced below to change the code
table specified in my registry EXCEPT.... instead of
specifying the c_28591.nls as the default, I changed the
default to c_1252.nls. Note that I am using IE6.0 and
Windows XP Pro.
1252 is the code table for Western European (Windows)
28591 is the code table for Western European (ISO)
Since the problem goes away temporarily by changing the
view encoding to the (Windows) version not the (ISO)
version, I reasoned that 1252 might just work.
At first, it didn't seem to work, because the registry
does not reload unless you reboot. After rebooting, the
problem was history.
Also, its not really obvious from the MSoft bulletin that
the registry line that needs to be changed is the first
line in that section of the registry. In this case, this
is the default code that will be used. This said, it
beats the heck out of me as to why the registry default
setting should "over-ride" the setting specified in the
web page itself! Oh well, it worked.
So, it turns out the problem was simple after all. Sure
glad I didn't resort to reloading windows!
You'll probably want to add a reference to this discovery
on your web site, but don't forget to tell folks to back
up their registry (Or do a System Restore Save Point),
and then to reboot after making the change.
John Mann
