Comment #8 on issue 18615 by jshin1987: change "default encoding" by default to UTF-8 in Linux http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=18615
Yes, this is a WONTFIX. Everything Evan said is right on :-) If we make the default encoding UTF-8 (of course, invididual users are free to set it to UTF-8 :-) ), so many web pages will 'break'. Most, if not all, pages that use UTF-8 expilicitly and correctly specify the encoding as UTF-8. So, they're not affected by whatever default encoding is used. The default encoding is meant to be used for those 'broken'(?) web pages that do not specify the encoding and rely on the fact that most of users visiting their web sites have set the default encoding to what they use. The only one case for setting the default encoding to UTF-8 is for opening *local* plain text files. We should do something about this, but that's a separate issue. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
