Firefox displays garbage characters in lieu of web page

Firefox displays garbage characters in lieu of web page On this web page http://taj.chass.ncsu.edu/Hindi.Less.05/dialog_script.html, firefox and opera running on windows and linux display the source html interspersed with garbage characters (for me, they appear as black diamonds with question marks), as opposed to a rendered web page.
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"In firefox, use

View->Character Encoding->More Encodings->UTF-16.

Hope that helps.

Most computer text is encoded as either ascii or 8-bit Unicode (UTF-8)

For more info on UTF-16 specifically, check here.

In general, if you see the � in firefox, use some ""intelligent guessing"" and try changing character encodings. Usually this works, occasionally though, particularly with linux firefox, you may run into font issues."