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Kenneth William Krugler commented on TIKA-3048:
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Hi [~tallison] - I think this is one of the side-effects of a change from a
while back (2 years ago) to assume that the HTML metadata charset is correct.
IIRC there was a lot of discussion about how much to trust this (and the HTTP
response headers). See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-539 and
especially comments near end for more context.
Based on all of that, I'd close this as a dup of TIKA-539.
> Tika unable to parse html files with non UTF-8 charset
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>
> Key: TIKA-3048
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-3048
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: parser
> Affects Versions: 1.9
> Reporter: Akash
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: ChineseFile.html
>
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> Tika is returning junk characters when parsing chinese characters present
> inside html file. Html file have charset mentioned as GB2312 explicitly.
> <head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=gb2312"><meta
> name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
>
> If we remove this charset from the html meta tag, then parsing works fine.
>
> Similar issue is observed for Arabic, Russain, Korean, Japanese, Hungarian
> and Spanish languages.
> Charset mentioned for each languages -
> Hungarian - iso-8859-1
> Chinese - gb2312
> Spanish - iso-8859-1
> Russian - koi8-r
> Korean - ks_c_5601-1987
> Japanese - iso-2022-jp
> Arabic - windows-1256
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