Firefox or Chrome - how to force a specific encoding for a page

Solution 1:

In Firefox click View->Character Encoding there you can select quite a few options for the encoding.

Otherwise you could use a greasemonkey script to accomplish this. There are quite a few for various sites on userscript.

Solution 2:

In Chrome, click on the little file icon (near the top right), and select one of MANY encodings from the Encoding menu. (Same idea as what was mentioned for Firefox.)