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Safari download file encoding suddenly broke

I often download files with Korean names, everything was fine until a couple weeks ago (likely the new update?). I now get files with all crazy text.



I've tried changing the view>text encoding from default, as well as to the different Korean options. All do the same.


This is quite important for my work, and I need it to work properly. I have tested in on Firefox on the same Mac and it works fine there, so this is almost certainly a Safari issue and not an OS issue.


Anything else I should do?

iMac 24″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Oct 9, 2021 10:30 PM

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Oct 10, 2021 8:38 AM in response to kevtron82

There have recently been many reports of a broad range of new problems on this support site about the latest release of Safari v15. It is included in the downloads for Big Sur and Catalina. If you are experiencing these problems, you can use another browser such as Firefox or Chrome and they will work for you until a newer version of Safari is released.

 

I have read here that Apple's support people have a link to reinstall Safari and that doing so often fixes the problem. You might check with them.

Safari download file encoding suddenly broke

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