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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jan 2017
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OS: Windows , Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Bug

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issue 597488



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Unfixable garbled text if charset= in HTTP headers is incorrect

Reported by spix...@gmail.com, Jan 9 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
http://fi.muny.cz/data/PA159/PA159-pa159-16-12-2014-predtermin.txt

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Open text file

What is the expected behavior?
windows encoding

What went wrong?
it had unicode encoding instead of windows encoding

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? No 

Does this work in other browsers? No
 Mozilla Firefox, Edge

Chrome version: 55.0.2883.87  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0

Chrome there is not any character encoding option anymore, so I have to use other browsers, thank you very much for it
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M55

Comment 2 by kojii@chromium.org, Jan 10 2017

Components: -Blink Blink>TextEncoding

Comment 3 by woxxom@gmail.com, Jan 10 2017

Related:  issue 597488 

I've tried the suggested "Set Character Encoding" [1] extension from that thread but it didn't process text/plain content type. I've reported the issue to the developers so hopefully they'll fix it since it's trivial (I know since I've modified their extension locally).

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/set-character-encoding/bpojelgakakmcfmjfilgdlmhefphglae
Labels: M-57 OS-Mac
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Able to reproduce this issue on Windows-10 and Mac OS 10.12 using chrome latest stable M55-55.0.2883.87. Observed the text file is not encoded properly with expected content. No issues observed on Ubuntu 14.04.

This issue is observed on chrome previous version of M35-35.0.1849.0 as well, Hence marking it as untriaged.

Thanks!

Comment 5 by jsb...@chromium.org, Jan 11 2017

Blockedon: 597488
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
I believe this is "working as intended" following the removal of the character encoding selection option. See  issue 597488 

Comment #3 is very helpful suggesting workarounds, although as noted they are as yet incomplete.

FYI, the server is sending the data with following HTTP header which confuses Chrome:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8


Comment 7 by tkent@chromium.org, Feb 15 2017

Cc: jinsuk...@chromium.org
 Issue 689344  has been merged into this issue.

Comment 8 by tkent@chromium.org, Feb 15 2017

Summary: Unfixable garbled text if charset= in HTTP headers is incorrect (was: Wrong text encoding)

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