NEW 138239
Interpret file:// URLs as UTF-8 on non-Windows 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138239
Summary Interpret file:// URLs as UTF-8 on non-Windows
Ben Boeckel
Reported 2014-10-30 22:32:09 PDT
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.
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Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 1 2014-11-02 01:03:21 PST
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.
Ben Boeckel
Comment 2 2014-11-02 04:08:42 PST
Sorry, not the URL itself, but the content at the URL. And yes, in a browser.
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 3 2014-11-02 21:44:25 PST
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.
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