When I display pages like this one:
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/primer/word_formation.htm

in either Firefox 3.0 or IE7 it tries to display the page using UTF8 and the 
characters used as the vertical lines for boxes do not display correctly.

Interestingly opening the local version of such a page:
file:///C:/Program%20Files/j602/help/primer/word_formation.htm

uses the ISO-8859-1 encoding and displays fine.

The issue seems to be the use of the | character rather than | to display the 
vertical lines. I notice that Learning J and the dictionary use | to represent 
vertical lines and there is no problem. E.g.
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/samp05.htm

Assuming that this browser behaviour is not unique to me two possible solutions 
might be:

0) Replace the use of | with | to represent vertical lines on all web pages.
1) Add the following declaration to the <head> of each page:
  <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
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