Bowser Encoding

[Nick]

I am having trouble with a browser at work. The browser is
IE6 and the OS is Windows ME. When a page is viewed the
encoding is set to:

Western European (ISO)

...this setting does not display web pages properly.
However Western European (Windows) does. Even though I
have set the encoding to Western European (Windows),
everytime a new page is visited it goes back to Western
European (ISO). Is there any way on keeping it on Western
European (Windows).

Thanks

Nick

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

I am having trouble with a browser at work. The browser is
IE6 and the OS is Windows ME. When a page is viewed the
encoding is set to:

Western European (ISO)

..this setting does not display web pages properly.
However Western European (Windows) does. Even though I
have set the encoding to Western European (Windows),
everytime a new page is visited it goes back to Western
European (ISO). Is there any way on keeping it on Western
European (Windows).

Thanks

Nick

Can you give an example page?

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[Guest]

It happens on any page. It will not load any of the
pictures and JavaScript dont work with this encoding. To
view a page the user has to change the encoding for every
frame and for every page/site. Is there anyway of keeping
the encoding on Western European or Unicode (UTF-8)???

Example webpages are: Hotmail, http://www.randles-
suzuki.co.uk, basically any page.

The problem only occurs on this one computer

Thanks

Nick

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

It happens on any page. It will not load any of the
pictures and JavaScript dont work with this encoding. To
view a page the user has to change the encoding for every
frame and for every page/site. Is there anyway of keeping
the encoding on Western European or Unicode (UTF-8)???

Example webpages are: Hotmail, http://www.randles-
suzuki.co.uk, basically any page.

The problem only occurs on this one computer

Thanks

Nick

I found what I expected; the site looks the same no matter what encoding I
use, Western (ISO), Western (Windows) or UTF-8.
I know that doesn't help you, but I'm trying to understand what is causing
some people the problem you are reporting.

If anything below fixes the problem (or if it doesn't) please post back.

1. You might want to refresh your scripting engine:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28001169
or
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/webdev.asp
Windows Script 5.6 for Windows 2000 and XP
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...43-7e4b-4622-86eb-95a22b832caa&DisplayLang=en

Sometimes there's a corrupt file in the cache and one must go to Tools |
Internet Options and click Delete Files.

2a. Start>Run>Regsvr32 vbscript.dll

2b. Start>Run>Regsvr32 jscript.dll

(WinXP users who have problems with 2a and 2b, see
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers_9.htm)

3. Re-register all DLLs listed in http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281679

4a. IE Tools>Internet Options>Advanced>Browsing>Enable third-party browser
extensions (uncheck & reboot).

4b. Find the hijacker that caused 4a to be checked (or if none were checked,
check for hijackware anyway):

Dealing with Hijackware
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm


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[Nick]

Hi Frank,

Thanks for your thoughts. The problem is at another branch
about 30 miles away. I will get back to you after I next
go up there.

Thanks for your help

Nick

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I found what I expected; the site looks the same no matter what encoding I

use, Western (ISO), Western (Windows) or UTF-8.

Frank,

Judging by the TLD on those URL in order to accurately simulate
Nick's problem you would probably have to be using EN-GB
for all of:
javascript:navigator.browserLanguage
javascript:navigator.systemLanguage
javascript:navigator.userLanguage

Here is a related discussion where the user was prepared to experiment
along that tack:

<
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]#link6 >

That particular case was perhaps unusual because browserLanguage
turned out to be EN-US, implying that the platform was a US version
of Windows!

Previously I had done a similar attempt at diagnosis/repair with a Dutch
(NL) user. That one somehow didn't turn out so benignly. I tried to
simulate the analogous changes e.g. from EN-US to NL and back on
my test partition though with no such ill effect; so suspect the fresh
symptoms that user had may have been (hopefully <g>) caused
by something else.


FYI

Robert