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Set Character Encoding

Provide right-click menu to manually set character encoding for web pages.

Users200KCurrent public install base
Rating4.0Store average score
Reviews290Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
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Version1.0.1
ManifestV3
Size155KiB
Languages2English / 日本語
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Right-click at somewhere on web page to manually set character encoding. The selected character set will automatically apply to all pages on the same site. Select "Use page default" to cancel it. This extension modifies http response headers to override original character set, so when installing Chrome will say "it can read and change all your data on the websites you visit". Just let it go because that is exactly how it works.

Starting from V0.4, it supports changing encoding of local files, but you need check 'Allow access to file URLs' in extension manage page.

Starting from Chrome 72, old versions will stop working because new Chrome requires extensions to request for extra permission to modify response header. Please use V0.51 or later.

To anybody who reports "not working", please share the URL of the page that is not working. We will try our best to make it work for you.

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Store average score4.0Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.7Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text175Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews290Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Svetlana Bolotnaya2018年7月1日
1

После установки работало, появился новый пункт меню "Дополнительные инструменты". На следующий день этого пункта меню уже нет. Расширение при этом включено и активно. Как теперь вернуть нужный пункт меню?

Language ru
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Viacheslav Blinov (dant3)2018年6月18日
2

doesn't work with content which is not text/html Sometimes makes the page look odd

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Alex Bjornstad2018年6月13日
3

Incompatible with Flash

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ivan Ivanov2018年6月7日
1

не работает, в хром v.64 не появился раздел для смены кодировки и как менять не понятно...

Language ru
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Sam J2018年4月19日
2

doesn't work with content which is not text/html

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
A2018年3月17日
5

頻繁には使わないけど、たまに必要な機能、それがテキストエンコーダ変更ですが、どうやら2016年12月以降のアップデートでchromeの標準機能から削除されてしまったようで、困っていました。 とても助かります。

Language ja
3 helpful · 1 not helpful
Jefrey Sobreira2018年3月2日
4

Helpful, but you could add ISO-8859-1

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Krasimir Berov (К.Беровъ)2018年2月18日
5

Thank you! I was missing this simple but essential feature here. Coming from Firefox.

Language en
Courtney Mohr2018年2月5日
5

Worked perfectly. Was able to find the correct character set quickly, and it wasn't what I initially thought it would be. My only feedback would be that it would be cool to add a feature that gave you the option to copypasta the code needed to drop into your site if you're a dev. Thanks for this awesome resource!

Language en
3 helpful · 1 not helpful
Anonymous user2018年1月31日
1

doesn't work

Language en
2 helpful · 2 not helpful