Weird Firefox issue ... server-related? (Force 9 homepages)
Like this you mean?
Firefox 3.6.13 on Win 7/32
Firefox 3.6.13 on Win 7/32
more like this 
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... thanks for all the replies
The one John posted comes the closest - just done a screenshot, not sure if this will load okay (not done that from the hard drive before) - hope it will show what I'm seeing here.
Have had this issue on occasions in the past (the odd character) but nothing like this. Somewhat reassured that it shows okay in some browsers, but a bit concerned how the page may look to at least some of its visitors 😕
Regards,
Penny.
... thanks for all the replies
The one John posted comes the closest - just done a screenshot, not sure if this will load okay (not done that from the hard drive before) - hope it will show what I'm seeing here.
Have had this issue on occasions in the past (the odd character) but nothing like this. Somewhat reassured that it shows okay in some browsers, but a bit concerned how the page may look to at least some of its visitors 😕
Regards,
Penny.
Mine shows Unicode (UTF-8).
If I manually select Western (ISO-8859-1) it displays correctly.
I'd be very surprised if Peter's solution didn't work.
If I manually select Western (ISO-8859-1) it displays correctly.
I'd be very surprised if Peter's solution didn't work.
Quote from: Peter You can see what code page the browser is using by going to the page in question then click View -> Character Encoding which will identify the code page being used to show the text.. If it says UTF-8 try changing it to ether of the Western code pages (8859-1 is normally the default) and the page will show correctly.
... yes, that works
and thank you.However I don't understand why this has only just started happening, would there maybe have been a default setting on the homepages servers previously, which has recently changed?
Quote from: Peter Try adding the following to the <HEAD> section
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
And see if that resolves the problem.
I will try that. However, another question - if I put the character encoding on the browser, back on UTF-8 (so the RBY Pokédex page shows the oddities), then go to the home page at http://www.happychild.org.uk/ , the word POKÉMON in the navigation table (next to the Pokémon picture) displays correctly. That page doesn't have a coding indicator on the html either, so why would it display differently?
Quote from: Gabe To avoid editing lots of pages, can add AddDefaultCharset Onto the .htaccess
... have had a few issues with .htaccess in the past 😕 wiped the entire site from view, the first time I tried it. Have learned to use it since, but confined simply to
Quote errordocument 404 http://www.happychild.org.uk/teleport.htm
errordocument 500 http://www.happychild.org.uk/teleport.htm
Would this line (AddDefaultCharset On) just go below the existing htaccess code lines?
In the past I have avoided adding factors like "charset=ISO-8859-1" (or whatever) to the html on pages, because a lot of the pages on the site include other languages, eg Russian (sample here) or Urdu (sample here).
A bit out of my depth with this one, as you'll have gathered 😕 Really don't want to do anything which will stuff up overall view-ability (if that's a word) of the site, but equally perhaps I need to get to grips with charset-type factors a little more than I have so far.
Regards,
Penny.