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There is no more auto detect for chinese under the view

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I used to open my chinese text file using firefox, it will auto detect the chinese text. However lately it will give weird encoding. I tried to turn on auto detect for chinese under view, but there is no more chinese language under auto detect. Is my firefox problem??

I used to open my chinese text file using firefox, it will auto detect the chinese text. However lately it will give weird encoding. I tried to turn on auto detect for chinese under view, but there is no more chinese language under auto detect. Is my firefox problem??

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Hello engkhsky, 3 chinese exist in View > Character encoding > Simplified (GBK), Simplified (GB18030), Traditional, but not in Auto-Detect section. Do you have it?


thank you

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  • bug 910192 - Get rid of intl.charset.default as a localizable pref and deduce the fallback from the locale
  • bug 967981 - Provide some way for addons/prefs to control the default fallback character set

There is now this pref:

  • intl.charset.fallback.override

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Yup I know i can choose it under the character encoding but it is quite troublesome to change it everytime thanks!

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@cor-el, Hi Sorry I do not understand how that work.

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See:

  • Tools > Options > Content > Fonts & Colors > Advanced > Character Encoding for Legacy Content