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I'm currently looking at a mojibake-filled webpage in what I presume should be Russian, which is entirely unreadable and unusable because Chrome ... SuperUserisaquestionandanswersiteforcomputerenthusiastsandpowerusers.Itonlytakesaminutetosignup. Signuptojointhiscommunity Anybodycanaskaquestion Anybodycananswer Thebestanswersarevotedupandrisetothetop Home Public Questions Tags Users Companies Unanswered Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Startcollaboratingandsharingorganizationalknowledge. CreateafreeTeam WhyTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. LearnmoreaboutTeams HowdoIchangethecharacterencodingforawebpageinChrome? AskQuestion Asked 5years,9monthsago Modified 1year,10monthsago Viewed 204ktimes 146 GoogleChrome,likealmosteverywebbrowserinrecentmemory,usedtohaveanoptiontochangethecharacterencodingforthewebpagebeingviewedbygoingtoMenu›Tools›Encoding(orsomesimilarlocation).Thisisextraordinarilyusefulincasethewebsitemisrepresentsitsencodinginitsheaders,or,failingtodoso,Chromemistakenlydetectstheencodingofthepage. However,itseemsasthoughinrecentversionsofChrome,thisoptiontomanuallyoverridethecharacterencodingis…missing.Eithermissing,ormovedsomewhereveryobscure,becauseIcannotfinditanywhere. I'mcurrentlylookingatamojibake-filledwebpageinwhatIpresumeshouldbeRussian,whichisentirelyunreadableandunusablebecauseChromeismistakenlyrenderingitwiththewrongcharacterencoding. HowcanIchangethecharacterencodingforawebpageinGoogleChrome? Edit:Forreference,I'monVersion55.0.2883.87m,andtheencodingoptionisflat-outmissingfromtheToolsmenu: google-chromebrowserencodingcharacter-encoding Share Improvethisquestion Follow editedMay24,2017at7:43 DonaldDuck 2,39399goldbadges2727silverbadges4444bronzebadges askedDec25,2016at6:04 MeshaalMeshaal 1,56222goldbadges99silverbadges77bronzebadges Addacomment  |  2Answers 2 Sortedby: Resettodefault Highestscore(default) Datemodified(newestfirst) Datecreated(oldestfirst) 139 Unfortunately…aChristmas-boxfromGoogleChrome:Chromeencodingoptionsgone?: … Chrome55hasremovedtheEncodingmenuandChromewilldo auto-encodingdetectionnow: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=597488- Removeencodingmenu Manualencodingselectionisnotnecessaryanymoreasthenew encodingdetectoristurnedonbydefault. ManualencodingswitchingmaybeabletobedonebyuseofChrome extensions. MarkedasbestanswerbyKameronM-CommunityManager Share Improvethisanswer Follow answeredDec26,2016at10:41 JosefZJosefZ 12.2k55goldbadges3535silverbadges6565bronzebadges 13 104 sigh~Thanksfortheinformation;ratherapitythenewencodingdetectorishotgarbage. – Meshaal Dec27,2016at1:47 17 Thisisareallysadturnofevents.ItseemsthatChromecannotcorrectlydetectShift-JISencodingproperlyinallcases,whichisbecomingahassleformewhiledoingresearchonJapanesewebpagesthathaven'tbeenupdatedinmanyyears...AtleastFirefoxletsmemanuallyselectShift-JIS. – recognizer Feb9,2017at21:29 9 Unfortunately...manywebsitesstillmangletheirownencodings. – NickT Jun13,2017at20:43 9 Chromecan'tevendetectcodepageonthesavedG+page.Thisisretarded.Google'scommunitymanagersareretardedtooiftheymarksuchanswersasacceptedandfreezethreadssoIcan'teventellthemtherethattheybrokeChrome. – Nakilon Feb13,2018at6:44 9 Justaddingmycommentherescreamingthatwhoeverdecidedtoremovethisprobablydon'treadanythingotherthenASCII,cominghereafteropeningatxtfilethatisn'tdetectedcorrectly,nottomentionallpagesthatneedsdifferentencodings. – NiKiZe Jun10,2018at16:42  |  Show8morecomments 35 Youcannowuseextensions.Hereisanexample https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/set-character-encoding/bpojelgakakmcfmjfilgdlmhefphglae Share Improvethisanswer Follow answeredJan14,2017at15:48 user2686101user2686101 45133silverbadges33bronzebadges 6 Itriedtoaddauser-definedencoding(ISO-8859-1)inthesettingsofthataddonwithoutanyluck.The"save"buttondoesnothing. – AndersLindén Jun16,2018at14:54 @AndersLindénTrytoclosetheoptionpagethenrechecktheresult – user2686101 Jun16,2018at15:22 Ihavetriedthisextension,butunfortunatelly,itrequiretorefreshthepage.AnditisnotabletoresendthePOSTdata:-( – Ondrej Nov21,2018at17:14 ThehugeandbloatedChromeneedsanextensiontodosomethingthatalltheotherbrowsershavedonefordecades,sincetheinceptionofinternet. – AntonShepelev Apr24,2020at18:36 1 @Rainb,Itworks.Hereisanexamplenta.go.jp/taxes/kids/hatten/txt/14.txt – user2686101 Feb2,2021at14:00  |  Show1morecomment Highlyactivequestion.Earn10reputation(notcountingtheassociationbonus)inordertoanswerthisquestion.Thereputationrequirementhelpsprotectthisquestionfromspamandnon-answeractivity. 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