Pound sign in some webpages replaced with J

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As the subject says, this is thew problem. I've checked for virus and spyware
and reset my IE settings, but on some sites like www.play.com, some of the
pound signs are £ and some are J.

This problem doesn't occur in Word or Outlook so i'm confused.

Need help please

Thank you

Mark
 
Hi,

Does it help to change the encoding under View, Encoding?

Kind regards

Hans Le Roy
MS MVP Win/IE-OE
 
Thanks for the reply, I tried this and indeed it works. However, it needs to
be changed everytime I visit the site. Outlook express has now showing the
problem. Does anyone know the default settings for font encoding for both
internet explorer and outlook?
 
Mark Hutchins said:
As the subject says, this is thew problem. I've checked for virus and spyware
and reset my IE settings, but on some sites like www.play.com, some of the
pound signs are £ and some are J.
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There doesn't seem to be any charset specified either in the main page
or in all of its stylesheets.

This may be related to lapg's Red-X symptom.

Subject: Re: Internet explorer 6 not showing pictures
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:03:24 -0500

There I suggested experimenting with the Language settings.

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BTW WRT Tristan's (OP's) point about "wrong encoding",
in this example I can't find any characterset specified in either
the main page or in its core.css Stylesheet. Like Frank,
I get Auto-Select giving me Western European (Windows).
Perhaps then the selection of characterset is determined
by something else, such as localized version of Windows
or Language settings.

In that case it may be useful to know what your settings are.
You can generate a report of them here:

http://www.gemal.dk/browserspy/language.html

(Scroll down; the list is at the bottom of the right column.)


In case those things make a difference you could experiment
most simply by changing your browser's setting with Alt-T,O,Alt-L,...
The only other one you can change is controlled by the
Regional and Language Options Control Panel applet.
I can never remember which one does what.
If you experiment perhaps you will have more incentive than me
to keep track of how that applet affects the above diagnostics
and whether changes to them have any effect on the Auto-Selected
characterset.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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