Internet explorer encoding problem
 

hello,
I have a very strange problem that when I view specific sites that are central european encoded or at least contain a tag saying they are, I get a blank page in my browser window. When I change the encoding to western europeon the page displays normally. However, when i go to the site again, it again reverts to central europran encoding and gives a blank page. I have 'Auto-Select' Encoding turned off.

However, on another computer when I access the same site, IE again reverts to central europeon encoding but the page displays normally.

Any ideas as to what the problem could be!

Salman

Re: Internet explorer encoding problem
 

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Re: Internet explorer encoding problem
 

What version of Windows? What version of IE?

Do you have the Central European fonts installed?

It's difficult to advise further without example URLs of sites that work and those that don't work.

Re: Internet explorer encoding problem
 

i have IE 6 and win xp

basically no sites with central european work or cyrillic for that matter unless i manually change the encoding to western european or utf-8 and then reload the page.

One main site is suprnova.org which is central european encoded.

I do have central european fonts installed as other browsers like mozilla work fine!

Re: Internet explorer encoding problem
 

I see no indication of that site being Central European encoded: it appears to use a Windows character set. It does have JavaScript errors however.

I've no idea what is wring with your system: maybe you have a spyware or BHO infection which has upset IE. I suggest you do a scan for spyware/BHOs.

You might also try the command:

sfc /scannow

to check out all your XP files.