iPod Touch (2.2) Safari Text Encoding

[mnewman]

My wife navigated Safari to a web page with Thai text encoding. It displayed just fine. But, now Safari seems to be "stuck" with Thai text encoding and will not properly display web pages with other text encodings.

How does one set the text encoding on the iPod Touch version of Safari?

[macosnoob]

Maybe one of these iPod settings will fix things:

Settings > Safari > Clear Cache
Settings > General > International > Region Format (make sure it's not set to Thailand)

[mnewman]

Thanks, macosnoob, but neither of those worked.

However, we do have a work-around....

The situation happens when you open a Western encoded page from a link on a non-Western encoded page. So, if my wife opens the Thai Bar Association page (Thai encoded) and then follows a link to a Western encoded page, that page will be improperly displayed. The solution is to bookmark that page, close all open pages and then go to the page from the bookmark. Awkward, but it works.