A single
email probably won??™t change the site owner??™s mind, but enough complaints
may convince the webmaster to rethink the decision to support only
Internet Explorer.
Figure 7-36. The User Agent Switcher can masquerade as IE to gain entry to sites that
don??™t expressly support Firefox
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Fix Symbols in Web Pages
Ever view a page with strange symbols in the text, particularly where you??™d
expect to see hyphens or apostrophes? Although it may look like a font or
language problem, it??™s more than likely that you just have the wrong code
page selected.
The code page is the mapping of characters your browser uses to render
text, and it must match the code page that was used to create the site. Usually
your browser picks the correct one automatically, but if you??™ve previously
changed the code page (or if another web site switched code pages on
you), or if the web site doesn??™t specify the correct code page, the site won??™t
display properly.
In Internet Explorer, open the Page drop-down, and select Encoding ???
Auto-Select. If there??™s already a checkmark next to Auto-Select, or if that
doesn??™t help, go to Encoding ??? More, and choose the nationality that best
matches the document you??™re viewing. The default code page for sites in
English is Western European (Windows).
In Firefox and SeaMonkey, go to View ??? Character Encoding, and select
Western (ISO-8859-1) for sites in English, or another nationalization that
more closely matches the site you??™re viewing.
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