encoding problems on saved cyrillic websites
Candice A McDougall
camcdoug at U.WASHINGTON.EDU
Sun Apr 8 16:52:48 UTC 2007
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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