Something wrong with my Encoding on IE6

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Jessi

I need to know whats wrong with my Encoding with my IE6 i
have to keep changing it when it changes on its own and
it makes my screen for IE go with really big font and
think i have to change it to Arabic(Windows).
 
Jessi said:
I need to know whats wrong with my Encoding with my IE6 i
have to keep changing it when it changes on its own and
it makes my screen for IE go with really big font and
think i have to change it to Arabic(Windows).
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Browsers do change the encoding on their own. It's a necessary feature, since most web pages don't
give an explicit encoding. Unfortunately, IE is not very smart about it. It often decides that web
pages with curly right single quotes are in Japanese, because this character has the same byte value
as the Kanji shift character in a certain Japanese encoding. (Ironically, both characters exist only
in Microsoft proprietary encodings!) I've never seen it switch to Arabic, though. I'd appreciate it
if you'd post the URLs that give you grief.

Take a look at View/Encoding/Autoselect. Is there a check mark? If so, try turning that option off.
 
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