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How do I change encoding? Site specific would be nice

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The Character Encoding menu choice under View is greyed out. How can I activate it? I would like a site-specific option but anything is better than nothing.

The Character Encoding menu choice under View is greyed out. How can I activate it? I would like a site-specific option but anything is better than nothing.

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Jon_B wrote:

The Character Encoding menu choice under View is greyed out.

That shouldn't be the case, unless you're viewing something that isn't a web page, like a standalone image, video or audio file. If you are indeed viewing a web page, check if the problem goes away when you restart Firefox with add-ons disabled.

Jon_B wrote:

I would like a site-specific option but anything is better than nothing.

You don't normally need to change the encoding manually. It's the job of the web site to specify the correct encoding. You can try the following add-on if you've run into sites with an incorrect encoding and the owners refuse to fix them.