Weird Characters on Web Pages

I am suddenly seing weird "symbol" or "dingbat" characters on web pages instead of letters, and this is happening on all browsers I try (firefox, safari, explorer). How do I fix this?

Most likely it's a bad font or font cache. Helvetica Fractions and Times Phonetic are the most common. See this note:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=932561&tstart=0
If that doesn't help, email a screen shot (tom at bluesky dot org).

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Obviously I have some sort of problem with the character set but how to get rid of it?
I've tried copying text over from a TXT file without the returns, adding them later in iWeb, but it made no difference.

When I open iWeb
and open this project, I have no idea which set iWeb
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attributes afterward to figure out which one was the
set "du jour".
You are aware that iWeb does not open published files, right? It only opens the Domain.sites file where its data is kept:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebdata.html
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As far as my ISP goes, I'll take your word for it,
but I can't imagine an ISP of this size getting this
wrong and not receiving/responding to complaints.
None of the major companies devoted to hosting web pages which most people use have this problem as far as I know. ISP's for whom hosting is a sideline sometimes do not pay attention to the issue and leave their server set to force all browsers to use ISO-8859-1 encoding. They will not likely get any complaints if their clients are all using Roman script and traditional web editors which default to that setting as well.

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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot
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