How can I view downloaded .txt files as UTF-8 in Chrome on Android 13?
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We download many UTF-8 encoded .txt files.
Later in the e.g., [Northwoods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwoods_(forest)) , far from the Internet, we find they are unreadable.
Yes, we could simply open them in a different app, but we wish to keep using Chrome. No, the files don't contain byte order marks . Yes, there is no problem on Android 8, but things are much different on Android 13. As we observe, the


content://
URI does not pass character set information, so the browser can only assume it is latin1 .
How can I view downloaded .txt files as UTF-8 in Chrome on Android 13?
Asked by Dan Jacobson
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Apr 3, 2023, 02:14 AM
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