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How do I change the character encoding for a webpage in Chrome?

Google Chrome, like almost every web browser in recent memory, used to have an option to change the character encoding for the webpage being viewed by going to Menu › Tools › Encoding (or some similar ...
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Internet Explorer 11 not displaying UTF-8 encoded pages correctly

Some pages in IE 11, that seem to be UTF-8, are not displaying correctly. The same page displays correctly in Mozilla Firefox. I first noticed this in Amazon.com on the Orders page (pretty much any of ...
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What exactly happens when you change the character encoding of a webpage?

I loaded www.google.hk and then changed the character encoding to Greek and got this What exactly did the browser do when I changed the character encoding? It looks like translation but I think it ...
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