encoding problems

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I have a problem with encoding.. Through FrontPage it is set to US/Western
European (Windows) and it displays properly within FrontPage... When you
view the site within a web browser through, it defaults back to Unicode
(UTF-8). If you manually change your browser to US/Western European, it
looks fine... but it wont default to that. Here is the site in which I am
speaking of.. http://www.cru-online.com/miglm/Thermo.htm
what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance -
 
It looked fine for me. But if I may comment on something else, you have gray
text on a gray background, making it hard to read.

Wally S
 
looks like brown text on textured green to me..its only gray till the bg image kicks in...at least here it is.
 
actaully I fixed it... and this was for a customer of mine (so I cant vouch
for the design.. haha)

I did so by replacing this line in the code of the page -
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
I replaced that with this line of code -
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=-ISO-8859-1">

Thanks anyways guys!
message looks like brown text on textured green to me..its only gray till the bg
image kicks in...at least here it is.
 
Your server sends the line

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

with the http headers. This sets the page to use UTF-8. This cannot
be over-ridden from the page itself.
Ask your host to change the encoding to ISO-8859-1, or remove that
header line altogether. Note that changing this configuration at the
server may affect websites other than your own.
You may be able to change the configuration for your site using
..htaccess - I have no experience here, other than be careful when
editing the .htaccess file that the FrontPage stuff is not lost.
 
Not fixed in Mozilla 1.4
I still see ?F/?C and other ? marks where characters/symbols should
be.
 
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