Russian Web Pages Display Garbled Text (254731)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q254731

SYMPTOMS

When you view Russian Web pages using a computer running MacOS 9, Internet Explorer does not display the character set properly, even though you installed the Cyrillic language kit, you set the Web page encoding to Cyrillic, and you selected the proper fonts in Internet Explorer preferences.

CAUSE

This issue can occur if you enable the Allow page to specify fonts setting.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, use the following steps:
  1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences (or click Preferences on the toolbar).
  2. Under Web Browser, click Web Content.
  3. Click to clear the Allow page to specify fonts, check box, and then click OK.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:9/23/2002
Keywords:kbprb kbui KB254731
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