I don't find the encoding declared in the HTML or in the response headers, so I think Firefox is guessing its default encoding. In fact the pages are ISO-8859-1.
Speaking of Firefox and diagnosing browsing experiences, I've recently started using the Web Developer extension (click Tools, Extensions, Get More Extensions to find and install it)- it gives you a handy toolbar where you can edit css and see the effects on the fly, view the http response headers, resize your window to see how a page will look for people with 800x600 monitors, and lots more. Very handy for design work. A comparable tool for Internet Explorer is Accessible Information Solutions' Web Accessibility Toolbar (http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/toolbar/index.html), which has more features for accessibility such as viewing your page as it will appear to colour-blind readers, and less for web design in general.
Peter
Juris G. Lidaka wrote:
Sorry, this is dumb and somewhat TANgential. I've been browsing Peter Lang's site (http://www.peterlang.com) and find that higher-order characters are not rendering in Firefox 0.9.1. The page info says it's UTF-8, but when I set Firefox to that (Tools | Options | Languages | Default character encoding) nothing happens. I've added German and French to the languages, but that changes nothing. My system is running WinXPpro. Advice? Thanks!