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Firefox 3.6.10 displays fffd in a all text html file; what is the fix?

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http://www.seniorcoastsiders.org/RESULTS2010.html is the page on my website. It displays properly in IE7 but not in Firefox 3.8 or 3.610 (two different machines). I read online that this was a fixed bug in Firefox, but apparently not.

I receive a file from this source once a year and post it to our website. Never had a problem with Firefox and this file before. Today, I uploaded this year's version and it's filled with ff fd in Firefox.

[http://www.seniorcoastsiders.org/RESULTS2010.html] is the page on my website. It displays properly in IE7 but not in Firefox 3.8 or 3.610 (two different machines). I read online that this was a fixed bug in Firefox, but apparently not. I receive a file from this source once a year and post it to our website. Never had a problem with Firefox and this file before. Today, I uploaded this year's version and it's filled with ff fd in Firefox.

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Since the problem page had time-sensitive contents, I reformatted it as a pdf and posted a link to it yesterday afternoon.

Beforehand, I tried to upload a fresh copy of the text html file and got the same gibberish in IE7, only as diamonds and question marks rather than fffd. The only conclusion I can draw is that there is something flakey in the text file.

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That is a page encoded in UTF-16, but send by the server without specifying an encoding, so the default (Western ISO-8859-1) is used. It works (more or less) if I select View > Character Encoding > More Encodings > Unicode: UTF-16BE

Try to save the page as UTF-8 in the text editor and make sure that the server sends it with UTF-8 as well.

See http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Properly_Configuring_Server_MIME_Types