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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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Dante MustNotDie2017年8月25日
5

Why does Chrome feel it's right to remove the set charset feature is beyond me, however, this extension works like a charm, many thanks!

Language en
Konakona2017年7月29日
5

thank you for your extension!

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Aonz Atthapon2017年7月28日
5

Congrat! It works as expected ! I don't know why Chrome doesn't add this feature but this plugin does the job.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Александр2017年7月27日
1

Перезагружает страницу при смене кодировки!

Language ru
Cope Wang2017年7月18日
1

can not change encoding mode

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Iced Banana2017年7月13日
5

really simple and easy to use. thank you very much!

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Lanee JIANG2017年7月8日
4

Conflict with web.archive.org captures overview page. Hope there'll be an update solving this problem.

Language en
Boris Lvin2017年7月8日
5

Better than the original Chrome encoding tool (which Google stupidly removed)

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
sorogoth2017年7月6日
5

В гугле разрабы ваще ахренели походу! Убрать смену кодировки из настроек - это абсолютный кретинизм!!! Из-за этой тупости приходится пользоваться сторонними расширениями. Set Character Encoding, к счастью, работает нормально.

Language ru
16 helpful · 1 not helpful
Nobuo Hayashi2017年7月4日
5

テキストファイルを表示させたときに文字化けしてしまう場合に有効に使える。最近のChromeには表示のエンコーディングを切替える機能が無くなったので、その代替としてとても便利に使える。 Webページは文字化けしないよう正しく記述することがWeb制作者に求められるが、単なるテキストファイルを表示させる場合は、そのファイルのエンコーディング状況によって文字化けしてしまうことがある。そんなときにこの拡張機能が役に立つ。

Language ja
2 helpful · 1 not helpful