Safari, Wikipedia and strange characters

Hi guys
I'm have a problem at work with Safari. Some webpages with odd characters and are totally unreadable. For an example go to
http://homepage.mac.com/thomjcook/PhotoAlbum35.html
This always happens on Wikipedia but also I get it on other websites too.
As I said this only occurs on my work computer and my colgeaues have the same problem. But at home on my G5 it displays fine. Any ideas chaps?
Cheers in advance
Thom

here is one example:
http://www.virtuatom.com/
This is a page in Latin-1, but the server is forcing your browser to use UTF-8 instead. Nothing you can do about it other than change the encoding manually on your browser and perhaps tell the author this is happening to his page.
The priority given to signals by browsers to set the encoding is 1) server, 2) code in the page, 3) user preference settings. A correctly set-up server sends no signals, so that the page code governs.

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