User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ko-KR; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040108 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ko-KR; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040108 When native characters in URL are escaped used in the <a href="...">, hovering the link provides unescaped form in the status bar. This is a good behavior. But when I click the link and actually load it, the location bar retains the original escaped form. I believe location bar should provide human-readable and memorable clue about current page. When unescaping URL is not dangerous (e.g. URL spoofing), it would be better to restore them to the native form, in location bar and some other places, such as bookmark and history URL entries. This has some practical use in a Wiki page, e.g. http://wiki.kldp.org/wiki.php/%C0%C0%BF%EB%C7%C1%B7%CE%B1%D7%B7%A5 , where URL is composed of key terms of the page. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Hover the URL link with mouse and see the status bar 2. Click the URL and see the location bar 3. Actual Results: Status Bar: http://www.google.co.kr/search?q=테스트&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=ko URL Bar: http://www.google.co.kr/search?q=%ED%85%8C%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=ko Expected Results: Status Bar: http://www.google.co.kr/search?q=테스트&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=ko URL Bar: http://www.google.co.kr/search?q=테스트&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=ko

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105909 ***