I have 2 computers one of which displays fonts incorrectly when viewing
various sites on IE6, e.g http://www.pcfriend-online.com/ . an example is
this character "Â" which occurs frequently instead of spaces. I can correct
the display temporarily by changing to Unicode (View, Encoding, Unicode) but
this has to be done with every page viewed and is tiresome. How can I fix
this permanently


David Gaguine

Hi David,
I may be wrong as web page encoding is not my strong point. I visited the
site and all was fine with my puter. I can only guess that you have some
strange font selected for Internet Explorers default font ( as there is no
font tags in the sample page you supplied). Usually I have Auto-detect
selected for View>Encoding

To check your font settings select the Tools>Internet Options menu and on
the General tab select the Fonts button.
Here are my settings

Language Script: Latin based

Web Page font: Comic Sans MS (you may choose whatever here from your own
list of installed fonts)

Plain text font: Courier New (use the default that is selected when you
choose the web page font above)

I just had a play around with some Hebrew fonts that I have installed. It
did not seem to make a difference, so I could be completly wrong! Ha. Check
what settings you have for fonts on your good puter!

"David Gaguine" <David Gaguine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have 2 computers one of which displays fonts incorrectly when viewing
> various sites on IE6, e.g http://www.pcfriend-online.com/ . an example
is
> this character "Â" which occurs frequently instead of spaces. I can
correct
> the display temporarily by changing to Unicode (View, Encoding, Unicode)
but
> this has to be done with every page viewed and is tiresome. How can I fix
> this permanently
>
>
> David Gaguine

"David Gaguine" <David Gaguine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:E40D044E-2F0A-4B59-A210-6998D5B68EDD@microsoft.com
> I have 2 computers one of which displays fonts incorrectly when
> viewing various sites on IE6, e.g http://www.pcfriend-online.com/ .
> an example is this character "Â" which occurs frequently instead of
> spaces. I can correct the display temporarily by changing to Unicode
> (View, Encoding, Unicode) but this has to be done with every page
> viewed and is tiresome. How can I fix this permanently
>
>
> David Gaguine

Are the settings at View | Encoding the same?

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"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote:

> "David Gaguine" <David Gaguine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:E40D044E-2F0A-4B59-A210-6998D5B68EDD@microsoft.com
> > I have 2 computers one of which displays fonts incorrectly when
> > viewing various sites on IE6, e.g http://www.pcfriend-online.com/ .
> > an example is this character "Â" which occurs frequently instead of
> > spaces. I can correct the display temporarily by changing to Unicode
> > (View, Encoding, Unicode) but this has to be done with every page
> > viewed and is tiresome. How can I fix this permanently
> >
> >
> > David Gaguine
>
> Are the settings at View | Encoding the same?
>
> --
> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
> Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
> http://www.fjsmjs.com

The settings seem to revert to Western Euopean ISO for that site whether
Autodetect is selected or not, if thats what you mean.
>
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