[plug] Funny Characters Displayed in Website

[Timothy White]

On 8/3/05, Eric S <me at myhouse.net> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> Disregard my last post
> I read it that you had already set your browser to utf-8
> Try in firefox View - Character encoding - More - Unicode - Unicode (utf-8)
> if thats not it then I dont know.

Hmmm, Well I tried both utf-8 and iso.... Both show funny characters,
but different ones. Of course when I was silly and tried utf-16 I
ended up with a page full of funny characters, including what looked
like Japanese and Chinese characters.

I've just compiled a new kernel (finally a custom kernel for this
machine, taken my time, been busy) so will see what happens after a
reboot.

Tim