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website distorted in firefox but not in explorer

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maggiew
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Problem is when I view site via firefox it is totally distorted with japanese text. I have also checked it on a PC using explorer where it comes out ok.

Problem is when I view site via firefox it is totally distorted with japanese text. I have also checked it on a PC using explorer where it comes out ok.

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cor-el
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That looks like a page with a mixture of Unicode 16 with other Unicode 8 in it. You would have to ignore all unknown bytes if you want to display that page.

UTF-16: 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
਍㰀䠀吀䴀䰀 砀洀氀渀猀㴀∀栀琀琀瀀㨀⼀⼀眀眀眀⸀眀㌀⸀漀爀最⼀㄀㤀㤀㤀⼀砀栀琀洀氀∀㸀㰀䠀䔀䄀䐀㸀


Decoded as: 

&#xa0d;&#x3c00;&#x4800;&#x5400;&#x4d00;&#x4c00;&#x2000;&#x7800;&#x6d00;&#x6c00;&#x6e00;&#x7300;&#x3d00;&#x2200;&#x6800;&#x7400;&#x7400;&#x7000;&#x3a00;&#x2f00;&#x2f00;
&#x7700;&#x7700;&#x7700;&#x2e00;&#x7700;&#x3300;&#x2e00;&#x6f00;&#x7200;&#x6700;&#x2f00;&#x3100;&#x3900;&#x3900;&#x3900;&#x2f00;&#x7800;&#x6800;&#x7400;&#x6d00;&#x6c00;
&#x2200;&#x3e00;


Remove null bytes: 

<HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><HEAD><TITLE>Acintya - People Development</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"><STYLE type=text/css>

Modified by cor-el