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I host a web site under WIN2K Server and IIS 5.0 (all patches applied). All of my web pages use charset <iso-8859-1>. Some customers advised me their web browser was randomly displaying the default page using "chineese style" characters with no html tags, images and href links. I once noticed the problem by myself and refreshing the page did display it ok.
I recently discovered google has indexed the default page using those characters and its cache is using charset <Big5>. No links had been crawled as they do not appear on the cached page... My logs do not show any related problem.
Here is an extract of this page :
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I'm a bit... stressed as my ranking has droped down...
Does anyone has an idea?
1. My pages are build using those metas :
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="fr-FR, ca-CA, ch-CH, be-BE, lu-LU">
2. After I've posted my initial message on this topic, i encountered once again this problem on my web site. I then checked the IIS logs and did not notice any entry based upon my IP and the time at which the problem occured!
This is why i do more suspect an IIS bug rather than a meta problem.
Could it be an IIS caching or a DNS problem?
I have this problem before too. I think it has something to do with the page language settings you set in frontpage.
I am not sure but I think you'll just need to set it back to the correct language, save it and it should be alright.
If you're using frontpage, open up the pages for edit, then go to File, Properties and under Language, set it back to the original.
