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Stuart Falconer

I am using IE6 with an up-to-date installation of XP Home. Pages viewed with
my browser frequently display some letters and punctuation wrongly. It is
not possible to give examples here, but in general the characters which
appear are taken from the lower areas of character sets as seen in Character
Map. The effect varies from the merely irritating to completely unreadable.
I feel sure there is an obscure setting somewhere in IE6 which will enable
it to display all Western characters correctly. Any ideas?

Stuart
 
Stuart Falconer said:
I am using IE6 with an up-to-date installation of XP Home. Pages viewed with
my browser frequently display some letters and punctuation wrongly. It is
not possible to give examples here, but in general the characters which
appear are taken from the lower areas of character sets as seen in Character
Map. The effect varies from the merely irritating to completely unreadable.
I feel sure there is an obscure setting somewhere in IE6 which will enable
it to display all Western characters correctly. Any ideas?
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Hi Stuart

In IE, have a look at the View menu | Encoding. What do you have
checked? Usually Auto-Select works fine. Also mouse down to the "More"
entry and check the flyout menu for any strange choices :-) Hope this
helps.
 
Thanks Nightowl for your suggestion. Western European is checked. I also
ticked Auto, but it made no difference.
I don't know if this will come across exactly as it appears on my screen,
but it is an example of the kind of substitution that is occurring:

â?"

That is supposed to be @, and is one of the lesser errors.
Stuart
 
Hi Stuart

I just checked IE again (I normally use Firefox) and my View settings
are Auto, Unicode and left-to-right pages, with nothing on the More. . .
flyout menu checked.

Can you try checking Unicode instead of Western European and see if that
makes any difference? If not, could you post the URL of an example
problem page, so I can see if I get the same result?
 
Hi Nightowl.
Many thanks for this information. Setting UNICODE (UTF-8) from the More list
corrects the error, which is very good, but it only works for an individual
page. Going to another page re-sets Encoding to its default. How can I save
this setting as the default for all web pages?
Cheers
Stuart
 
Hello again Stuart

I'm not altogether sure of this, as I don't use IE on a day-to-day
basis. But this is how I think it works: when you have Auto-Select
enabled, IE looks at the web page to see whether it specifies what
character set to use (many web pages include this). If the page doesn't
say, IE makes its best guess and sometimes inevitably it gets it wrong.

So I think, if you Un-checked Auto but left Unicode checked, Unicode
would then be your default for all pages. This should work fine with
most, but it's possible you might get some strange results on a few
pages without Auto on.

Please do let us know how you get on :-) Good luck!
 
Hi Nightowl,
It works!! I switched off the auto and selected unicode. Looking at the site
I had most trouble with, it works nicely, and goes on working if I close IE6
and reload. So thanks a lot for this.
Best...
Stuart
 
Stuart Falconer said:
Hi Nightowl,
It works!! I switched off the auto and selected unicode. Looking at the site
I had most trouble with, it works nicely, and goes on working if I close IE6
and reload. So thanks a lot for this.
Best...
Stuart
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That's great, Stuart, so glad you've found an answer. And of course, if
you do run across a page that looks odd with this setting, you could
just switch Auto back on for that page. Thanks for letting us know!
 
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