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(Mac G4, OSX10.4, Firefox 3.6) Some but not all pages just show loads of chinese characters, sometimes where the ads are, sometimes a full page of… help!

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http://www.tildefrugal.net/tech/arp.php This page for example shows like this: 㰡䑏䍔奐䔠桴浬⁐啂䱉䌠∭⼯圳䌯⽄呄⁘䡔䵌‱⸱⼯䕎∠≨瑴瀺⼯睷眮眳⹯牧⽔刯硨瑭氱ㄯ䑔䐯硨瑭氱ㄮ摴搢㸊㱨瑭氾਼桥慤㸊㱬楮欠牥氽≓瑹汥卨敥琢⁴楴汥㴢摥晡畬琢⁨牥昽∯獴祬攮捳猢⁴祰攽≴數琯捳猢 㸊㱬楮欠牥氽≡汴敲湡瑥∠瑹灥㴢慰灬楣慴楯港慴潭⭸浬∠瑩瑬攽≆牵条氧猠䡯浥灡来∠桲敦㴢桴瑰㨯⽷睷⹴楬摥晲畧慬⹮整⽡瑯洮硭氢 㸊㱬楮欠牥氽≩捯渢⁨牥昽∯晡癩捯渮灮朢⁴祰攽≩浡来⽰湧∠⼾਼瑩瑬放䡯眠䅒倠坯牫猼⽴楴汥㸊㰯桥慤㸊㱢潤社਼摩瘾਼業朠獲挽∯業慧敳⽬潧漮杩昢⁷楤瑨㴢㈱㔢⁨敩杨琽∸〢⁡汴㴢繆牵条氢 㸊㰯摩瘾਼畬⁣污獳㴢湡瘢㸊㱬椾㱡⁨牥昽∯楮摥砮灨瀢㹈潭攼⽡㸼⽬椾਼汩㸼愠桲

http://www.tildefrugal.net/tech/arp.php This page for example shows like this: 㰡䑏䍔奐䔠桴浬⁐啂䱉䌠∭⼯圳䌯⽄呄⁘䡔䵌‱⸱⼯䕎∠≨瑴瀺⼯睷眮眳⹯牧⽔刯硨瑭氱ㄯ䑔䐯硨瑭氱ㄮ摴搢㸊㱨瑭氾਼桥慤㸊㱬楮欠牥氽≓瑹汥卨敥琢⁴楴汥㴢摥晡畬琢⁨牥昽∯獴祬攮捳猢⁴祰攽≴數琯捳猢 㸊㱬楮欠牥氽≡汴敲湡瑥∠瑹灥㴢慰灬楣慴楯港慴潭⭸浬∠瑩瑬攽≆牵条氧猠䡯浥灡来∠桲敦㴢桴瑰㨯⽷睷⹴楬摥晲畧慬⹮整⽡瑯洮硭氢 㸊㱬楮欠牥氽≩捯渢⁨牥昽∯晡癩捯渮灮朢⁴祰攽≩浡来⽰湧∠⼾਼瑩瑬放䡯眠䅒倠坯牫猼⽴楴汥㸊㰯桥慤㸊㱢潤社਼摩瘾਼業朠獲挽∯業慧敳⽬潧漮杩昢⁷楤瑨㴢㈱㔢⁨敩杨琽∸〢⁡汴㴢繆牵条氢 㸊㰯摩瘾਼畬⁣污獳㴢湡瘢㸊㱬椾㱡⁨牥昽∯楮摥砮灨瀢㹈潭攼⽡㸼⽬椾਼汩㸼愠桲

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That is a problem with the encoding.
It happens if an UTF-16 encoding is selected insteadof UTF-8 or another 8 bit Western or Windows encoding.

  • Firefox > Web Developer > Character Encoding
  • View > Character Encoding

If you view that text as UTF-8 then you get this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<link rel="StyleSheet" title="default" href="/style.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Frugal's Homepage" href="http://www.tildefrugal.net/atom.xml" />
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.png" type="image/png" />
<title>How ARP Works</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<img src="/images/logo.gif" width="215" height="80" alt="~Frugal" />
</div>
<ul class="nav">
<li><a href="/index.php">Home</a></li>
<li><a hr 0