diff --git a/core/java/android/webkit/WebSettings.java b/core/java/android/webkit/WebSettings.java
index db8fc6fb04ad7..7cf3cb5ad7ca1 100644
--- a/core/java/android/webkit/WebSettings.java
+++ b/core/java/android/webkit/WebSettings.java
@@ -1355,9 +1355,10 @@ public abstract class WebSettings {
     public synchronized boolean getJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically() {
         throw new MustOverrideException();
     }
+
     /**
      * Sets the default text encoding name to use when decoding html pages.
-     * The default is "Latin-1".
+     * The default is "UTF-8".
      *
      * @param encoding the text encoding name
      */
diff --git a/core/res/res/values/config.xml b/core/res/res/values/config.xml
index 190d601eab407..2c3eb6905ca0a 100644
--- a/core/res/res/values/config.xml
+++ b/core/res/res/values/config.xml
@@ -1776,9 +1776,6 @@
 
     <string-array translatable="false" name="config_cdma_home_system" />
 
-    <!-- Default text encoding for WebSettings. @hide @SystemApi -->
-    <string name="config_webSettingsDefaultTextEncoding">UTF-8</string>
-
     <!--From SmsMessage-->
     <!--Support decoding the user data payload as pack GSM 8-bit (a GSM alphabet
         string that's stored in 8-bit unpacked format) characters.-->
diff --git a/core/res/res/values/public.xml b/core/res/res/values/public.xml
index 8ebcd6d271302..7568252d912b4 100644
--- a/core/res/res/values/public.xml
+++ b/core/res/res/values/public.xml
@@ -2545,8 +2545,6 @@
     <!-- @hide This really shouldn't be public; clients using it should use @* to ref it.  -->
     <public type="style" name="Theme.Leanback.FormWizard" id="0x010302d0" />
 
-    <public type="string" name="config_webSettingsDefaultTextEncoding" id="0x01040018" />
-
     <public type="array" name="config_keySystemUuidMapping" id="0x01070005" />
 
     <!-- An interpolator which accelerates fast but decelerates slowly. -->