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Certain website links displayed as weird symbols

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gunxsword
gunxsword

That's part of what this page is displayed as in my firefox browser. IE can open the site with no problems. I have accessed the site around a week before and it worked fine. Download links to filesonic does not work.

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That's part of what this page is displayed as in my firefox browser. IE can open the site with no problems. I have accessed the site around a week before and it worked fine. Download links to filesonic does not work. 㰡䑏䍔奐䔠䡔䵌⁐啂䱉䌠∭⼯圳䌯⽄呄⁈呍䰠㌮㈯⽅丢㸊㱈呍䰾㱈䕁䐾਼呉呌䔾呲慤攠啮楯湩獭㰯呉呌䔾਼⽈䕁䐾ਊਊ㱂佄夠呅塔㴢⌰〰〰〢⁂䝃佌佒㴢⍆䙃䌹㤢⁌䥎䬽∣〰〰䙆∠噌䥎䬽∣䙆㘶䍃∾ഊ㰡ⴭ⁦潬汯睩湧⁣潤攠慤摥搠批⁳敲癥爮⁐䱅䅓䔠剅䵏噅‭ⴾഊ㰡ⴭ⁰牥捥摩湧⁣潤攠慤摥搠批⁳敲癥爮⁐䱅䅓䔠剅䵏噅‭ⴾ਼䉒㸊㱁⁈剅䘽≩湤砱⹨瑭⍰慮湥歯敫∾㱉䵇⁓剃㴢慵瑨潲㌮杩昢⁗䥄呈㴢㐶∠䡅䥇䡔㴢㐵∠䅌䥇丽≢潴瑯洢⁁䱔㴢周楳⁁畴桯爠∠䉏剄䕒㴢〢

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cor-el
cor-el
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That happens if (F10) View > Character Encoding > UTF-16 is selected.

Switch to UT_8 and it becomes this: 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Trade Unionism</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFCC99" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#FF66CC">

<!-- following code added
 by server. PLEASE REMOVE -->

<!-- preceding code added by server. PLEASE REMOVE -->
<BR>
<A HREF="indx1.htm#pannekoek"><IMG SRC="author3.gif" WIDTH="46" HEIGHT="45" ALIGN="bottom" ALT="This Author " 
BORDER="0" 0
Hasan
Hasan

Also Remove Test Pilot extension. It has been reported as causing various malfunctioning problems in Firefox.

Uninstalling Add-ons

Cannot Uninstall an Add-on

Check and tell if its working.

gunxsword
gunxsword Question owner

Weird... Test Pilot wasn't the cause.

I've found my solution but, it turns out that I'm using UT_8 encoding at the time the problem appeared, I switched to UT_16 which caused this page to be displayed in the same weird way, switched back to UT_8 and all other pages which originally have problems were displaying correctly.

Is this a bug?

Hasan
Hasan

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gunxsword
gunxsword Question owner

Through testing I've found switching to UT_8 does fix the problem.

cor-el
cor-el
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Where did you make the switch to UTF-16?

Did you change the default from Western (ISO-8859-1)?

  • Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Advanced > Default Character Encoding

As I posted above, if you see UTF-16 selected in View > Character Encoding then you get that problem on pages that have UTF-8 or Western encoding.