Why are newer versions of Firefox having problems with UTF-16le (Windows default unicode set)
I have a website that has multiple languages on it, and so I've been using UTF-16le for it. Everything was working well on multiple browsers until the last few months, when only Firefox stopped displaying it properly. I can force the page into UTF-16le, but then some of my graphical links no longer work and I cannot navigate through the pages unless I force every single page to UTF-16le EVERY SINGLE TIME. This problem is not unique to my computer, either, as this has happened with every computer I have tried in the last few months.
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As answered before a few weeks back [*]: the server sends the pages as UTF-8 and that is what Firefox uses to display the pages. You need to reconfigure the server and make them send the pages with the correct content type (UTF-16) or with no content type at all if you want Firefox to use the content type (BOM) in the file.
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cor-el - I don't believe that I can do anything with the server, but I doubt that your solution is to the problem I have. For one thing, I've tested this page with about 5 other browsers, and Firefox is the only one having problems. Secondly, the problem arose after I upgraded Firefox a about 4 months ago, and so I tend to believe that it is a problem with Firefox, not the server. Thank you for the link to the forum, though, I didn't even know it existed. :)
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