Depends on the browser, obviously. And on the HTML. If you use high
ASCII in the source HTML, it will probably look weird on other
browsers/platforms anyway. You hopefully use &entities, not raw 8-bit
characters.
I maintain dual copies of my FAQ, and generate the text-only
rendering from a slightly different HTML source file than the one web
visitors see [all versions ultimately come from the same source file,
of course], but this is probably not an option unless you can build
your own tools for this. (The pieces are all there if you're on Unix.)
On Unix, you can at least simply pipe it to tr to get rid of, or
replace, the offending characters automatically. Upgrade that to a
Perl script for more versatile post-processing and, well, you've taken
the first steps on a long journey towards The Perfect FAQ Maintenance
Toolbox For Your Personal Needs (tm).
/* era */
lynx -dump path/to/file.html | perl 's/\xa9/(c)/g' # and so forth
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