I've been using Firefox on my MAC since Safari 4 Beta came out. Why?
Because it had an encoding issue that pissed me off ( really ).
When I went to some website sometimes the text appeared all stupid and with very strange characters, I tried to change the text encoding to all the possibilities, but nothing.
I made some debugging and found out that in the source code the text appeared correctly and when I copied and pasted the strange text to any editor it appeared correctly as well so it got to be a Safari issue.
Yesterday, the non-beta version of Safari 4 came out ( with the classic tabs again, I really prefer them! ) and I had hopes that they've had fixed the issue but... they haven't.
So what? If Apple didn't fix the issue, it had to be a problem of my own and not a general problem.
I made some search and finally found something that turned out to be useful, here's what to do:
1 - Close Safari 4
2 - Go to Home/Library/Preferences and search for com.apple.Safari.plist
3 - Delete that file
4 - Open Safari 4
Your preferences should have disappeared but now you should see the websites with the strange encoding fine.
It worked for me. Hope it works for you as well!
June 10, 2009
Fixing Safari 4 Encoding Issue
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