Comment #9 on issue 18615 by mahaniok: change "default encoding" by default to UTF-8 in Linux http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=18615
the biggest problem is that there are multiple non-UTF-8 encodings to choose as default, and current way of choosing the default encoding depending on the language of Chrome at the time of download seems deficient to me (if it is how it's chosen). E.g. I use English UI but browse much more Russian pages than Western-European, so I might stumble upon Win-1251 much more often than upon Western; but Western is my default, and it doesn't help at all. Same problem say for my father, who downloaded English Chrome (because for whatever reason google.com/chrome in his previous browser was showing in English) and switched it to Russian UI, but default encoding stayed Western for him. So UTF-8 would have been one possible non-language-dependent encoding, which would 1) at least definitely not make things worse for such cases as described before 2) in case of wrongly specified UTF-8 pages it will improve their browsing. Though probably setting Win- 1251 would be even better, but both are better than Western anyway. So what I would say: for English UI, since English doesn't use any characters from higher- ASCII, there is no difference which default encoding to use - English-language pages would still look perfect. So for English UI it makes sense to switch to UTF-8 (otherwise, why would you choose Western on top of Win-1251 or GBK or any other non-English encoding?). For German, as I understand, it should stay Western, for Russian - Win-1251 and so on. So my suggestion is to switch default encoding to UTF-8 only for English UI. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
