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[wit>trope]

Sometimes when I surf the web I see this on my screen in the midst of normal English text:

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Please help me get rid of this problem!

 

[Perfection]

Are you using a computer with its language set to something other than English?

 

[Mise]

It could also be the character encoding of the browser you're using is different to that which the page was made in. E.g. if someone made the page in Unicode and your browser is set to Western or something, it might show "special" characters as different special characters (e.g. " turns into € or something).

 

[Chieftess]

Some languages use a different script (and thus, font). So, if your browser doesn't support it (or doesn't have the font), you can't view it. Most fonts should be downloadable though. Maybe some kid thought that Team Spirit would be a really cool font on a webpage. If you don't have that font, then you can't view the page.

 

[rbis4rbb]

Oh ok thanks I had that problem as well

 

[wit>trope]

It could also be the character encoding of the browser you're using is different to that which the page was made in. E.g. if someone made the page in Unicode and your browser is set to Western or something, it might show "special" characters as different special characters (e.g. " turns into € or something).

THANK YOU I changed the encoding of my browser to Unicode and it solved the problem. There was more than one Unicode variety listed but I just chose the plain Unicode one and it seems to work.

 

[wit>trope]

O great! Now I'm sometimes seeing Chinese characters in the midst of English text

O I fixed it now with the same method.

Is there a way to make the page automatically load with the proper encoding?

 

[Chieftess]

O great! Now I'm sometimes seeing Chinese characters in the midst of English text

O I fixed it now with the same method.

Is there a way to make the page automatically load with the proper encoding?

Yes - set your default language to have the highest priority (top in the list).

Tools->Options->Langauges (or the equivalent).

 

[wit>trope]

Yes - set your default language to have the highest priority (top in the list).

Tools->Options->Langauges (or the equivalent).

Thanks! I think I fixed it now For some reason in my Crazy Browser, two Chinese languages was listed but it wasn't listed in the Internet Options. I don't know how Chinese got into there. But I just removed everything in the Internet Options and then added it back again and now hopefully there will be no more Chinese!