Fixing Problems With HTML Files

Some HTML files might display incomprehensible characters. This problem is typically due to the following reasons:

• The charset encoding tag is incorrect.

• The charset encoding tag is missing.

To find the charset encoding tag in the HTML file, perform the following steps:

1. Open the file in Mozilla.

2. Choose View -> Page Info.

The charset information is at the bottom of the General tab, for example: Content-Type text/html; charset=us-ascii

If the string charset=us-ascii does not match the actual encoding of the file, the file might appear as broken. To edit the encoding of the HTML file, perform the following steps:

1. Open the file in Mozilla Composer.

2. Choose File -> Save as Charset.

3. Choose the correct encoding. Mozilla Compose automatically converts the encoding and the charset tag as appropriate.