138239 2014-10-30 22:32:09 -0700 Interpret file:// URLs as UTF-8 on non-Windows 2014-11-02 21:44:25 -0800 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit Platform 528+ (Nightly build) Unspecified Unspecified NEW P2 Normal --- 1 mathstuf webkit-unassigned ap oldest_to_newest 1045226 0 mathstuf 2014-10-30 22:32:09 -0700 Currently, file:// URLs are interpreted using Latin-1 which causes mojibake in directories with utf-8 characters in the filenames. Windows should probably use utf-16 here. 1045590 1 ap 2014-11-02 01:03:21 -0800 Could you please elaborate on how you observe this issue? Is it though WebKit API, or in a browser? In my experience, file:// URLs are interpreted as utf-8, Safari has no problem dealing with these. 1045595 2 mathstuf 2014-11-02 04:08:42 -0800 Sorry, not the URL itself, but the content at the URL. And yes, in a browser. 1045653 3 ap 2014-11-02 21:44:25 -0800 File-based documents respect default encoding that is set in Safari preferences, so one can change that to UTF-8 if needed. I don't know how to tell whether UTF-8 is the most common encoding for local plaintext files, but in any case, a web browser is probably not the best application to display those.