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Change Firefox default encoding for text files
I don't see a way to change the default encoding in Firefox from , but you can manually change it every time you view the page, from the view menu (not ideal, I know). I don't see any extensions that let you do it, either (although I'm sure someone could make one). It might be a gargantuan task, but you could always try to edit the Firefox source code to allow for this, and then compile it.
You might be interested in making it so a text editor of your choice (one that supports Unicode) will open the page source (or the txt file) instead of Firefox doing it (you can use control+u to open a txt file that is displaying in the current tab, or if it's not a txt file it'll open the webpage's HTML source code, in your favorite text editor). To do that,
- Open in your URL bar.
- Search for (change it to true) and (change it to the path of your text editor; make sure it's the full path).
- Restart your browser.
Then it'll launch a temporary file with the text of the page source in your text editor (which for a text file is the actual text file). I tested it and it works.
The glaring problem with this is it won't let you click to open scripts referenced in the source code if you're viewing HTML source code (if you have a habit of clicking links to script files).
It appears that another version of Firefox had the ability to set the default encoding once upon a time, but that doesn't exist in on Xubuntu.
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