[plug] Funny Characters Displayed in Website

[Eric S]

Timothy White wrote:

> 
> Ok, so it appears that I have a locale problem or character encoding
> proble= m.
> I get funny looking characters (including boxes with digits inside,
> which i know appear when you try and use a character that isn't in
> that char map) dotted throughout the site. This happens at a number of
> websites.
> For example
> http://www.alcoa.com/australia/en/info_page/bauxite_residue.asp I have a
> screen shot for those that don't understand what I'm talking about= .
> http://weirdo.bur.st/funnychars.jpg
> I've tried my locale with iso.... and utf-8. Nether seem to make a
> difference. The website detects as UTF-8.
> 
> Any ideas? I'm sure it's simple, I've lived with the nuisance long enough.
> 
> Tim

You need to set Character encoding to Western ISO-8859-1.
In firefox find it in View - Character encoding - More - West European
also turn off autodetect while you're at it.

Eric S