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unread symbols in printing internet pages

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zammon2007
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Some of the internet pages showen unread symbols when i browse it with firefox and somes open normaly but when i try to print the content by my virtual printer i found it show unread symbols either - the same pages with internet explorer are readable and printable, how can i deal with such problem?

Some of the internet pages showen unread symbols when i browse it with firefox and somes open normaly but when i try to print the content by my virtual printer i found it show unread symbols either - the same pages with internet explorer are readable and printable, how can i deal with such problem?

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The server doesn't send an encoding, so Firefox uses the default.

You can try View > Character Encoding > More Encodings > East European > Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5)

You can also try View > Character Encoding > Auto-Detect > Russian or Universal , but that doesn't seem to work well

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the-edmeister
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Example web site where that happens?

zammon2007
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thank you for your fast reply.. the link below represent recently example for my problem http://www.salafvoice.com/print.php?a=4763 http://www.salafvoice.com/print.php?a=3457

thank you for generous interest

cor-el
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Chosen Solution

The server doesn't send an encoding, so Firefox uses the default.

You can try View > Character Encoding > More Encodings > East European > Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5)

You can also try View > Character Encoding > Auto-Detect > Russian or Universal , but that doesn't seem to work well

Modified by cor-el

zammon2007
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Thank you dear brother for your kindly respond the way you tell my was the key for my problem with slight modificaton i had tryed View> Character Encoding > Arabic ( windows - 1256) that way makes every thing allright