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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: May 2018
EstimatedDays: ----
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Compat



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Not possible to change encoding if a page has it explicitly wrong.

Project Member Reported by antonbryl@google.com, May 29 2018

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
http://niab.by/stat/dzianisau_kascioly/

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Open the page: http://niab.by/stat/dzianisau_kascioly/

What is the expected behavior?
If the encoding stated by the page is obviously wrong, either overwrite the encoding straight away (I think Mozilla does that), or at least propose to do so, in the same way as page translation is proposed.

At the very list, there should be an obvious way to change the encoding manually.

What went wrong?
If the page lists its encoding wrongly, there is no obvious way to get around that.

Does it occur on multiple sites: N/A

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 66.0.3359.181  Channel: stable
OS Version: 
Flash Version:
 

Comment 1 by woxxom@gmail.com, May 29 2018

Removing of Encoding option:  bug 597488 .
It was intentional due to low usage, apparently.
There are extensions that may help, for example:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/set-character-encoding/bpojelgakakmcfmjfilgdlmhefphglae
Labels: Needs-Triage-M66
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Comment #1 is correct.

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