encoding

[txnorwod]

Within the past week IE6 is having encoding problems. I
cannot keep the encoding on Western European (windows) it
keeps changing and causes pictures on certain websites not
to work. The auto-detect does not seem to work.

 

[H Leboeuf]

Read this article. You may be missing some .nls file.
I have 23 or them on my C:\Windows\System.

I would try to repair IE 6.
Add/Remove programs/MS/ IE repair.

Pictures Are Not Displayed on Web Sites in Internet Explorer
A Web page may display an image as a red X, or a placeholder may appear in
place of the image.
Covers also this problem: Web page that is encoded for the Western European
(ISO) code page might not display any images:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283807 (i. e. 5, 6.
W95/98/se/ME/NT4/2000/XP Jun. 4, 2003)