problems with webpage encoding for Cyrillic on a mac

[Jacob Edmond]

Many thanks for your responses. For the record, I'm using OSX 10.6.8 currently (perhaps upgrading would fix it?), and Firefox 14.0.1. What is very curious is that in accessing the site this evening (from home) the Cyrillic displayed correctly on Firefox. However, when I  opened another window with the same URL, the problem recurred. There the page is still displaying incorrectly so that I get readable (but not quite correct) text like the following:
ЂНЛОї 2012, є114
And randomly distributed "≠" characters.
This is the case even when I manually set the encoding to windows-1251.
So to sum up, things seem to be working on Firefox sometimes (but not consistently). Any clues as to how I end up with encoding problems in Firefox for the SAME WEBPAGE in one window but not another? (I have automatically detect encoding turned on in both cases.) 
Jacob

On 24/07/2012, at 9:42 PM, R. M. Cleminson wrote:

> The page in question <http://magazines.russ.ru> is being served (correctly) as windows-1251, as per its http header, but there is no encoding specified in its html header, which does however identify the language as Russian.  It is just possible that this is triggering a different encoding on the mac.  Have you tried setting the encoding manually to windows-1251 (in Firefox, under "view" from the toolbar)?
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> Incidentally, Firefox run on Windows displays the page normally.
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> Dear Seelangers (especially those technically minded mac users among you), 
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> I use a mac and firefox as my browser. Usually, Cyrillic webpages display OK, but there are some that I cannot view correctly on firefox (or chrome, safari, or opera) on my mac. These troublesome webpages include those on http://magazines.russ.ru , a site I use frequently. In the case of that website, the only approach that works is to use parallels to run windows xp and internet explorer, which will display the pages perfectly. 
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> My question then is this: is there any way I can get the pages to display correctly using mac OSX, or am I stuck with running windows and internet explorer using parallels? 
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> Many thanks in advance for your advice, 
> Jacob 
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