Asian Characters displayed when they shouldn't be there

[Guest]

Hello,

I am having problems viewing some websites. Many letters of words are
missing and replaced with Asian characters. For example, if the page were to
say Realtors, it would be displayed as ealtors with an Asian symbol for the
R.

This is not a webpage viewed through e-mail, so it's not a spam issue. It
only is displayed incorrectly through IE, not Netscape. I am running XP. We
do have a Korean speaking person using the computer, but I don't know why
that would affect a normal webpage viewing. The problem is highly irritating.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Sandi - Microsoft MVP]

SS

It does sound like a language setting issue, especially considering the
Korean speaking person. Go to IE view, encoding and turn off autoselect.
See if that helps.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

We do have a Korean speaking person using the computer,

but I don't know why that would affect a normal webpage viewing.

Check your Languages... settings. Alt-T,O,Alt-L
If you see Korean there, especially if you see it first, remove it.
Then retry.

When you specify multiple languages IE tells all sites this.
So, you may be inadvertently telling a site that you are happy
to see Korean as well as English content.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle

 

[Guest]

The problem is still there........I removed the Korean which was second under
the "Internet options" and I also went under "View" and set the encoding to
Western European windows.

After testing I went back to check that I had selected the correct settings,
but the encoding under the "View" tab seems to fall back to either "Unicode"
or "Korean" instead of Western European windows. How can I change the defalt
setting?

 

[Guest]

Problem solved. I just restarted the computer after going through the steps
once more and that seems to have done the trick. Thank you both for your
help.