Setting the Firefox text encoding

It’s not a simple as you might like. I use the overflow menu.

1. Click on the three horizontal lines at the top-right; the ‘hamburger’, which opens the menu.
2. Click on ‘Customize’.
3. Drag ‘Text Encoding’ to the overflow menu box.
4. Click ‘Done’.
5. The overflow menu is indicated by the guillemets on the menu bar. (Note: guillemots are sea birds.)
6. When on a page showing funky text with weird characters suggestive of incorrect encoding, click the overflow menu icon and choose ‘Text Encoding’ and pick off something and see if it helps.

If you see something like this, changing the text encoding might help.

 

1. Drag the Text Encoding entry into the Overflow Menu box.
2. Hit ‘Done’

Click guillemet on the menu bar (not the one on the bookmarks tool bar) to open overflow menu

1. Click on guillemet. 2. Click on ‘Text encoding’ 3. Choose encoding — Unicode in this case.

Sometimes the text encoding menu will be greyed out, which usually means it’s not relevant for the page in question.

Quick.