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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - Allow setting a manual encoding, and/or encoding autodetection, for WKWebView"
   href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153794">153794</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Allow setting a manual encoding, and/or encoding autodetection, for WKWebView
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>WebKit
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>WebKit Nightly Build
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>iOS
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>Normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P2
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>WebKit2
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>webkit-unassigned&#64;lists.webkit.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>stuartmorgan&#64;chromium.org
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        <pre>There does not appear to be any way to control the encoding used by WKWebView to parse a page. When Chrome for iOS was based on UIWebView, we had an autodetection setting based on network-level interception, but that's no longer possible with WKWebView. We've gotten significant post-switch feedback that there is a long tail of sites, particularly CJK sites, where it's impossible to view them correctly now on iOS.

If WKWebView had a way to override encoding for a page, it would be possible to provide a workaround for the long tail, as is done in desktop browsers.</pre>
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