This seems to have started recently - I get Thai characters on web pages I view. For instance the £ sign always comes up as Thai.

I have tried looking into Internet Explorer settings and I have English and Thai in my language settings, with Thai second. The font settings specify Times New Roman.

What do I need to do?

PS This message shows £ in the correct font - so it is obviously only some web sites!!!

Mine does the same IanB.

Sent an e-mail to Daughter the other day and all the £ signs came out as a Thai letter at her end.

It could all be to do with the encoding settings, if you go to

View-> Encoding (Charachter encoding in Firefox) and then select one of the western options, it might make the western stuff display right.

In terms of emails the sender and receiver need to be using the same encoding by default which is a bit more trick to get right - especially across contintents. :P

just like to say i have the same thing happen with the pound sign .I have only noticed it in the past month or so ,but my old computer use to always have this problem, glad to see it is not only me.Could it be anything to do with certain thai sites that she visits .

The problem happens when websites don't include an encoding instruction in their web pages. All our pages now display in Unicode UTF-8 and (I think) I've embedded an instruction on every page to let your browser know the correct encoding.

If you view the source of any page on thailand-uk.com you should find the following line in the page header:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

Without this instruction your browser will most likely choose it's current setting, so if it is set to Thai (Windows) the £ sign will be replaced with Thai characters. As per JamieP's instructions, changing the encoding to Western when viewing those pages should fix it.

The same goes for emails. If you send an email, encoded as Western, to a Thai whose mail software or browser is set to Thai, the pound sign will be translated as a Thai character.

Regards