S.C.Carlson

It is indeed similar under Firefox: View > Text Encoding > Unicode (UTF-8).

The cause of the problem is that the site author is having his Unicode pages identify themselves as Russian.

Stephen

Ben C Smith

I should mention that it was Stephen who first set me on that Skeptik page in the first place in one of his weblogs. I really should add that datum to my gateway page.

Ben.

Julian

That is a good tip for anyone who does web page stuff that has non-standard (non-ascii) characters. Always start the page off with

print "Content-type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 \n\n";

in whatever language you use. Many people don't know this and it would save us the step described above. It is generally good practice in whatever type of stuff you do. You can use a META tag if you are doing straight HTML, like so: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >.

Julian