Yes, that does the trick with Firefox! Thank you.

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "bmscotttg" <bm.brian@...> wrote:
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> --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "rob13567" <nielsenjava@>
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> > When I read Brian's notes about the latest Laxdaela section,
> > instead of Icelandic characters, I see corrupted text as in:
> > ráðagerð. I tested on two separate PCs running different
> > Internet browsers, and both showed the strange characters.
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> > Any ideas as to how to fix?
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> In Firefox click on 'View'; go to 'Character Encoding' in the
> drop-down menu, and set the encoding to 'Unicode (UTF-8)'. I
> don't use IE, but I just fired up whatever (probably oldish)
> version is on this machine; on it you want the 'Page' menu, and
> within it 'Encoding'. (If you use Opera, or Chrome, or any
> Mac-specific browser, you're on your own!)
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> I recently upgraded my e-mail client and set the new version to
> post in UTF-8 by default. My older posts sent via e-mail were
> in ISO-8859-1; Yahoo Groups uses this as its default, so it
> handled them fine, but it isn't bright enough to read headers
> and therefore louses up the default display of other encodings.
> Of course any posts that I send via the web interface -- like
> this one -- will be encoded in ISO-8859-1. (Test: <r��ager�>
> should show up normally here.) But I don't like web interfaces,
> so I mostly will be posting in UTF-8, unless it's a real problem
> for someone.
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> Brian
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