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I'm have Windows 8, how do I change the character encoding from Unicode to Western?

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mskcdc
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I frequently have the problem of Asian characters imposed on my browser tabs and tiles. I found support info that indicates it's a coding problem in Firefox. However, I'm unable to change the character coding from Unicode to Western as is recommended (the character encoding options do not response to clicks to change).

I frequently have the problem of Asian characters imposed on my browser tabs and tiles. I found support info that indicates it's a coding problem in Firefox. However, I'm unable to change the character coding from Unicode to Western as is recommended (the character encoding options do not response to clicks to change).

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ideato
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Hello mskcdc, the problem is mcafee site advisor extension, please try to disable or remove that extension and you are OK.

see : How to uninstall SiteAdvisor

see also another option, if works for you, without to uninstall the mcafee site advisor extension :

disabled the add-on then close firefox and restart Firefox again. Then enable the add-on again, close firefox one more time and restart Firefox again. (works here :-))

thank you