barney wrote: > http://www.everywine.co.uk/preston17/brownbros/BBgift.html > > When this page is first loaded, it's usually layed out all wrong. Hit > Reload, and the layout fixes itself for the most part, but the > stylesheet isn't applied. I didn't see anything in the source code that > might cause this odd rendering, then I looked at the Page Info and > Character Encoding UTF-16LE caught my eye. There isn't any charset > coded in the page itself, so I guess this is coming from the server. > > Is UTF-16LE for real, and is it the likely reason the page renders badly > and the stylesheet is ignored? BTW, all of the links on this page lead > to generated pages, iso-8859-1, that render perfectly fine, styles and > all. This static page seems to be the odd man out. > >
For me it was even stranger. First, page was loaded and looked fine. But after reload, it showed the html-text in some unicode format, probably not recognizing that it is unicode (i.e. it shows 2 symbols for 1 character). Changing charset manually to UTF-16LE fixes page again.
