Western European (windows) option changes to Unicode(UTF-8)

[Guest]

In IE6 I select view > encoding and then the option Western
European(windows). When I close and reopen IE the option has automatically
changed to Unicode(UTF-8). I have changed it back to Western
European(windows) but it always reverts to Unicode when I close and reopen
IE. I've restarted the computer but no change. This problem started about
1-2 months ago but for the prior 1-2 years all was OK. I use Windows XP home
2002. IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2-gdr.05301-15191c . updated version: sp2 and
receive Microsoft automatic updates.
Any suggestions how I can get IE to hold Western European(windows)

 

[Jan Il]

Hi g

What problems, if any, are you having when the encoding changes? You might
try the following and see if it helps:

IE changes my encoding

Make sure that Auto-select at the top of the Encoding box in View is not
checked

Then go to IE>Tools>Internet Options>General>Accessibility
Make sure none of the boxes there are checked if not needed.


If you have SBC Yahoo, it has been known to cause such problems.

Update your video driver.

Update your script engine:

For 2000 and XP go to
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...43-7e4b-4622-86eb-95a22b832caa&DisplayLang=en
The install includes a new jscript.dl

Hope this helps.

Jan
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[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

In IE6 I select view > encoding and then the option Western
European(windows). When I close and reopen IE the option has
automatically
changed to Unicode(UTF-8). I have changed it back to Western
European(windows) but it always reverts to Unicode when I close and reopen
IE. I've restarted the computer but no change. This problem started
about
1-2 months ago but for the prior 1-2 years all was OK. I use Windows XP
home
2002. IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2-gdr.05301-15191c . updated version: sp2
and
receive Microsoft automatic updates.
Any suggestions how I can get IE to hold Western European(windows)

Is Auto-Select on?

 

[Guest]

On IE pages the apostrophe in words such as area's would be shown as area?s.
I don't use yahoo and I tried all your suggestions the last few hours
including reinstalling an August 17th IE6 microsoft update (KB896727) that
their web site stated had been corrupt and suggested it be reinstalled but
the reinstallation actually made the problem worse so I restored and now have
the ? again between words like area?s. Thanks much for your assistance.

 

[Guest]

I turned on auto select and it selected but the results were the same so now
it is off again.