Fixing Broken HTML Files

Some HTML files might be displayed in garbage 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 actions:

1. Open the file with Mozilla.

2. Press Ctrli, or click View to open the View menu.

3. Click on Page Info.

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

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

1. Open the file with Mozilla Composer.

2. Open the File menu.

3. Select Save As Charset.

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