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Some webpages are a large mix of gibberish character's.

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Certain webpages (as the title of this question shows) appear only in a giant mix of gibberish characters and a few have the same character's but doesn't corrupt them... http://i832.photobucket.com/albums/zz249/LolipawpsCave/gaiaknowsfershure.png That's one of the examples of te«he symbols mildy appearing, some webpages don't appear at all

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== I installed the Windows XP Asian Language Pack

Certain webpages (as the title of this question shows) appear only in a giant mix of gibberish characters and a few have the same character's but doesn't corrupt them... http://i832.photobucket.com/albums/zz249/LolipawpsCave/gaiaknowsfershure.png That's one of the examples of te«he symbols mildy appearing, some webpages don't appear at all == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == I installed the Windows XP Asian Language Pack

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cor-el
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That is an encoding problem. That part of the page seems to be in Unicode (UTF-16)