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Re: FAQ at www.dpawson.co.uk


> > I am trying to access the FAQ at http://www.dpawson.co.uk for
> > the list.
> > However, I get all garbled characters on the screen. Any
> > suggestions on how
> > to fix it?
>
> Guess (not quite intuition:-) You are on win32, ie5 +.
>
> Solution: Set the encoding to greek in ie5 <sigh/>
> No idea why that works.. but it does! 8859-7 is never mentioned,
> input or output encoding.

Aha, yes, sorry Maulik, I can now reproduce this (but only if I have
IE5.5's encoding on auto-select, and I normally don't because it's so
buggy) There's probably some chance string in Dave's html that
confuses IE5's encoding-detection heuristics (which it seems to
believe despite the explicit encoding settings).

Also, there's something very odd about 8859-7 support in Win2K at
least. If you have it installed, OE emails in any flavour of ISO-8859
tend to get marked as 8859-7 encoded, even if 8859-7 isn't active. I
had to uninstall Greek support for that reason.

Michael
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