315543 - "Default Character Encoding" has two meanings

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Egmont Koblinger]

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The Navigator / Languages / Default Character Encoding preferences-field has
two meanings.

It specifies the default encoding for pages lacking character set specification.
Since lot of sites lack this, it's probably a wise idea to leave it on the
default ISO-8859-1, or maybe change to something quite similar, e.g. to
ISO-8859-2 if I mostly read Hungarian pages. But sure I wouldn't set this to
UTF-8 since it would cause a whole lot of pages to display in a completely
unreadable way.

On the other hand, this setting also specifies the default charset of the
pages created with the composer. Here I'd like the default to be UTF-8 since
I want my newly created pages to use this encoding.

So please consider splitting it into two separate preference settings.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

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