Corrupt HTML files

[Matthew Hawkins]

Jan-Yun Lou (loujanyun at yahoo.com) wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've been experiencing some strange problems lately. 
> Sometimes when I save a html document from the web
> onto my hard-drive and then try to open it later all I
> get is rubbish symbols.
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Are you sure its actual corruption?  Sounds a lot to me like its simply
saving the pages in an alternate charater set, I'd fathom a guess at
UTF-8 or UTF-16.

-- 
Matt