encoding problems on saved cyrillic websites

[Candice A McDougall]

Hello SEELANGers,

I am currently in Russia working on a research project, and as I only 
have internet access at cafes, rather than pay by the minute to read, I 
usually just save entire web pages to my notebook's hard drive to read 
at home later, when I'm offline. But for some reason, all Cyrillic pages 
that I have saved recently, once opened again in Internet Explorer, 
become illegible pages of equal strings and gibberish of the D8=E9=W3 
etc. sort. Some of them are from sites from which I have successfully 
saved pages a month or so ago, and the old saved sites still open 
legibly, but now I can't save anything. I think I have somehow managed 
to change the settings of how Internet Explorer saves the pages. There 
is always the option to choose encoding when saving, but changing this 
setting doesn't help, and once the page is saved no changes to encoding 
can be made; any attempt to change it just results in a blank page.

Whenever I open a problematic page of gibberish, I get a warning "To 
help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this 
webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your 
computer. Click here for options..." Clicking also leads to a blank 
page. Does anyone have an idea why my computer has turned against me?

Thanks,
Candice McDougall

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