Corrupt HTML files

Pearl Louis pearl.louis at anu.edu.au
Tue May 21 02:49:21 EST 2002


Hmmm.  That could be it.  However I checked Galeon's settings and the
encoding is set to "Western ISO-8859-1".  However that is just
rendering.  Does anyone know how I can check what encoding it is saving
the files at?

Pearl

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 23:16, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> 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.
> [--- snip ---]
> 
> 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






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