I think this was the *&*&*&88%%%$ KIDS. When I go to Yahoo, the screen is unreadable. Finally tracked it down to Encoding which is set to Western Euopean (ISO) not Western European (Windows). When I change it back I can read that screen but have to change it each time within Yahoo. Is there a way I can reset this so it uses the correct encoding
IE 5(SP1) not 5.5, running on Windows 2000 Professional
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AskWoody LoungerJanuary 29, 2001 at 3:03 am #352319Viewing 0 reply threadsAuthorReplies-
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AskWoody LoungerSeptember 10, 2001 at 4:12 am #541559Do you use Auto-Select? I just noticed that mine is not set to Auto-Select (View, Encoding…) and I wonder whether this is a problem with Auto-Select selecting incorrectly, or IE not saving your preferred setting correctly. In the absence of other information, IE will default to whatever Windows is set for. I’m not sure how to access that, or whether you would want to change it, anyway.
(Incidentally, when I choose View, Encoding, Western European (ISO) the Yahoo! home page looks exactly the same. Unicode, Cyrillic, same thing. I don’t get it.)
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AskWoody LoungerSeptember 10, 2001 at 4:17 pm #541690I’ve tried turning Auto-select on and off. It doesn’t seem to affect the problem. It selects the western european ISO whether it’s supposed to auto-select or not. I believe that auto-select is only activated when the web designer leaves encoding information off the page entirely; in this case, IE6 seems to be reading the information wrong, and seems to be doing it for a number of people because there are more posts than mine describing the same problem.
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AskWoody LoungerSeptember 11, 2001 at 12:08 am #541799By the way, here’s a really wierd effect that has been completely replicable on my machine – it now happens every time! When I use my bookmark for MS Knowledge Base, I get a no-graphics view and text telling me that the site is temporarily unavailable and I should come back later. When I change the encoding back to Windows, the page redraws with full functionality as well as graphics. In each search result page, I see no results until I change the encoding, then the list of results springs up.
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AskWoody LoungerSeptember 11, 2001 at 2:51 am #541823If you’ve never been in your registry before, there’s quite a bit to explain. In Windows 98, use Start, Run, regedit and in Windows 2000, use Start, Run, regedt32. In regedit, there is one tree that has the six categories, whereas in regedt32 there are separate “documents.” The information I posted was for Windows 98.
Because changes to the registry have the possibility of ending Windows as we know it, you obviously want to be careful in there. You also can back up your registry files before using the editor. For more information, you could consult these articles:
The Microsoft Windows 98 Registry Revealed Because the graphic links are broken, I created the attached version. Actually, for copyright reasons, I cannot post it.
I think the shorter answer is, if you download and rename the earlier .txt file with a .reg extension and open it (double-click it), it will slam that information into your registry. The next time you start IE, those settings should be implemented under View Encoding. There are no guarantees that this will work, or is even a good idea, but it’s about as much as I can say/do from where I sit.
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