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WebView ignores document lang / encoding #17717

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@elyran

Is this a bug report?

Yes

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

Yes

Environment

Environment:
OS: Windows 10
Node: 9.3.0
Yarn: 1.3.2
npm: 5.5.1
Watchman: Not Found
Xcode: N/A
Android Studio: Version 3.0.0.0 AI-171.4443003

Packages: (wanted => installed)
react: 16.0.0 => 16.0.0
react-native: 0.51.0 => 0.51.0

Steps to Reproduce

(Write your steps here:)

  1. Init a new project.
  2. Copy/Paste the code I provide.
  3. See - the characters are wrong.

Expected Behavior

Show the word in Hebrew:

שלום

Actual Behavior

Shows some bad characters.

image

Reproducible Demo

Link:
https://snack.expo.io/HkmOZ0VHG

If it's not a bug then how can I achieve this relatively simple task of setting the encoding to Hebrew? I've search all over the internet, as well as the docs and this very repo issue tracker :)

Thank you!

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