[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 17873] Encoding override should not be persistent

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17873





------- Comment #8 from ap at webkit.org  2008-03-17 13:38 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #7)
> After all, those misconfigured sites need to correct themselves. And if they
> went extra length to convert their pages to  MacCyrillic (on the fly) ,  
> wouldn't they listen to a request for either  not doing it (just use the
> encoding they use for Windows) or using the correct charset name? 

Sadly, they don't listen.

This usually happens not because of conscious choice, but because of using
poorly written "localized" Apache configs that people downloaded somewhere, or
got with their Linux/FreeBSD distros.


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