[CrendKing]

> 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?

[dollop43]

I rarely need to do that, so I cannot find an example for the moment. It is usually a one-off thing, then yes I could do the conversion manually, but it was obviously an usability degraded.