I am accessing an intranet site built by amateurs, that was constructed to be "best viewed by IE" (arghhh!). The site is in portuguese. All accented letters are jammed and do not appear as they should. As I create sites myself, I know that the best way to build a site in portuguese and other latin languages is to use the "charset=iso-8859-1" on the page's HTML encoding. This will ensure cross-browser and platforms compatibility.
But I have no way to change this, because I am a visitor on this site.
I don't know the encoding they are using. What I ask is: is there a way I can force my browser (Chrome or Firefox) to recode the page using the correct charset? I need this to work on Ubuntu.
Best Answer
In Firefox click
View->Character Encodingthere you can select quite a few options for the encoding.Otherwise you could use a greasemonkey script to accomplish this. There are quite a few for various sites on userscript.