View encoding in Internet Explorer

My guess from your post is that the sites you are going to are not primarily ?Western European? nor do they have the sites set for auto detect to detect, rather you are having to select after logging onto these sites. The problem is this is only a guess as I do not have sufficient information to help more completely.
Feel free to email, help if I can.

todd

The sites must be encoded Western European Windows because they work properly when I manually select that encoding.
The automatic detection seems to default to Western European ISO, and this does not work. Strangely enough I have no problem with detection of Chinese sites!