Google Chrome doesn't return to UTF-8 after moving to another page

Question

I noticed strange behaviour for google chrome. I have web application based on java spring-mvc framework. In head tag <meta charset="utf-8">is set.

For each page response headers return Content-Type:text/html;charset=UTF-8 In IE 8,9,10,11 and FF if user changes encoding in browser's settings to KOI8-R and then goes to another page inside domain - browser encoding will be automatically returned to UTF-8.

BUT in google chrome in same case KOI8-R will be present even if we go to other pages inside domain.

Is it expected behaviour for Chrome? Maybe it is some kind of bug?

Answer 1

Chrome doesn't like to use UTF-8 by default so you have to do:

1. Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
2. Select "Tools"
3. Select "Encoding".
4. Pick one "Unicode (UTF-8)" from the menu of encodings

To make the client do this by default you would probably have to write some script but I'm afraid I can't help you out there.