charset - all letters like é, ï, " (and so forth) show as □

For some reason all letters and symbols in the subject title now appear als
little blocks on all internet sites.

I know it has something to do with charset but I didn't change anything so
I'm confused.

Can someone advise me how to get it right again?

"Ed" <> wrote ..
> For some reason all letters and symbols in the subject title now appear
> als
> little blocks on all internet sites.
> I know it has something to do with charset but I didn't change anything so
> I'm confused.

Hi Ed

It sounds like you might have the character encoding set to a non-standard
value?

In IE, go to the View menu and choose Encoding. Select the encoding
appropriate for your region. If you are in a North American, or western
European country, or Australia/New Zealand, you'll probably want "Western
Europe (ISO)" or UTF-8. Then reload the page in question.

If all else fails, go to Tools menu, Internet Options, Advanced, and hit the
Reset button. This will reset *all* your IE settings back to the factory
defaults.

Hope it helps,
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

Yes, that did the trick! Thanks. Such a simple solution ;-)

"Andrew McLaren" wrote:

> "Ed" <> wrote ..
> > For some reason all letters and symbols in the subject title now appear
> > als
> > little blocks on all internet sites.
> > I know it has something to do with charset but I didn't change anything so
> > I'm confused.
>
> Hi Ed
>
> It sounds like you might have the character encoding set to a non-standard
> value?
>
> In IE, go to the View menu and choose Encoding. Select the encoding
> appropriate for your region. If you are in a North American, or western
> European country, or Australia/New Zealand, you'll probably want "Western
> Europe (ISO)" or UTF-8. Then reload the page in question.
>
> If all else fails, go to Tools menu, Internet Options, Advanced, and hit the
> Reset button. This will reset *all* your IE settings back to the factory
> defaults.
>
> Hope it helps,
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au
>
>

One question, the errors appear in UTF-8 and not in West-European, but the
problem is that each time I start internet explorer, it starts in UTF-8, how
do I change the default setting? If I uncheck the UTF-8 box in advanced it
doesn't help.

"Andrew McLaren" wrote:

> "Ed" <> wrote ..
> > For some reason all letters and symbols in the subject title now appear
> > als
> > little blocks on all internet sites.
> > I know it has something to do with charset but I didn't change anything so
> > I'm confused.
>
> Hi Ed
>
> It sounds like you might have the character encoding set to a non-standard
> value?
>
> In IE, go to the View menu and choose Encoding. Select the encoding
> appropriate for your region. If you are in a North American, or western
> European country, or Australia/New Zealand, you'll probably want "Western
> Europe (ISO)" or UTF-8. Then reload the page in question.
>
> If all else fails, go to Tools menu, Internet Options, Advanced, and hit the
> Reset button. This will reset *all* your IE settings back to the factory
> defaults.
>
> Hope it helps,
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au
>
>

Ed;459171 Wrote:
> One question, the errors appear in UTF-8 and not in West-European, but
> the
> problem is that each time I start internet explorer, it starts in
> UTF-8, how
> do I change the default setting? If I uncheck the UTF-8 box in advanced
> it
> doesn't help.
>
> "Andrew McLaren" wrote:

Hi Ed,

Make sure that "Auto Select" is unchecked.

Shawn


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"brink" <> wrote...
> Make sure that "Auto Select" is unchecked.
> Shawn

I agree with Shawn!

--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

I tried that but it keeps loading and resetting itself to UTF-8. It doesn't
stay in Western code when I exit and reload I.E.7. Anybody?

"Andrew McLaren" wrote:

> "brink" <> wrote...
> > Make sure that "Auto Select" is unchecked.
> > Shawn
>
> I agree with Shawn!
>
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au
>
>

"Ed" <> wrote ...
>I tried that but it keeps loading and resetting itself to UTF-8. It doesn't
> stay in Western code when I exit and reload I.E.7. Anybody?

Hmm, that's weird. At a guess, I'd say that Internet Explorer was not able
to update your encoding preference, under the HK_Current_User key in the
Registry. It may be some kind of weird permissions issue; or possibly a 3rd
party plug-in interferring with IE's setting.

As first steps, I'd try these:
- run Internet Explorer at a blank page (browse to "about:blank"), rather
than any specific URL.
- set the encoding and then exit IE.
- re-open IE and check your encoding.

If that doesn't work, next step would be the global Reset, under Tools,
Internet Options, Advanced.

If that doesn't work, I'd try asking in a Internet Explorer specific group,
such as "microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general". That newsgroup is very
active, and the folks there know a lot more about IE than we do here.

Hope it helps,
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au