Firefox Character Encoding Problem for a News Site

[spacesurfer]

My dad likes to read the news from www.gujaratsamachar.com in the language called Gujarati. It requires you to download a font to view the Gujarati characters.

This works fine in Internet Explorer, all version. However, I want him to use Firefox because of Ad Block Plus. I don't want him clicking on advertisements (he's not that computer savvy). But in Firefox, weird characters show up and it's annoying.

When I change the Character Encoding to Western European, it displays correctly. However, it gets reset every time Firefox is restarted. Again, he's too old and not great with learning new tricks so I've created URL shortcuts for him and he knows how to click on links and page up and down. Otherwise, not much else.

Is there a way to make the settings stick? See pics below a comparison of Firefox and IE.

In firefox:

In IE8:

[Tripredacus]

I've noticed this a lot lately also. It seems like everything worked fine in older version of Firefox. I have the Chinese and Japanese packs installed so I can see those characters, and Korean at home. Ever since upgrading to FF3 I am seeing these characters a lot. It also shows up a bunch on Wikipedia also. I would be interested in finding an answer to this question too.