Charset Detective

Malware Detected

This extension has been flagged as potentially malicious.

Extension Delisted

This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-15.

How to install an extension Open in Chrome Web Store

CRX ID

piammlobfjijhonoankcbfooegjbcofb

Status

Minor Policy Violation Removed Long Ago No Privacy Policy

Description from extension meta

This extension will detect a web page's character set and display it in the upper right.

Image from store

Description from store

The Charset Detective will analyze what character set each web page you visit is using (e.g., UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, etc.) and display it in a small green box on the top right of every page.

If the character set of a page is not UTF-8, there is a button to report the domain and character set to the UTF8Ubiquity.org Project. This will enable people to crowdsource the detection of websites that are using non-optimal character sets (e.g., ISO-8859-1) and help garner a grassroot movement to get the website's developers to change.

After all, non-UTF8 character sets are *so* 20th Century.