> when you need to read some very old Japanese site where their encoding is pretty non standard, you are screwed
If you need to read them frequently, yes. Otherwise, if this is just one-off, maybe user can download the page source, extract text content, paste into text editor and select encoding? Do you have an example CJK site I may try?
If you need to read them frequently, yes. Otherwise, if this is just one-off, maybe user can download the page source, extract text content, paste into text editor and select encoding? Do you have an example CJK site I may try?