Closed Bug 241596 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

A bad search URL is created if non-ASCII characters are entered into the google search box (which by default expects UTF-8) so google truncates the badly coded characters.

Categories

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

()

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 225695

People

(Reporter: pg, Assigned: bugs)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Searching for a Hungarian character 'é' produces the following bad query: http://www.google.com/search?q=%E9&sourceid=mozilla-search&num=20 instead of: http://www.google.com/search?q=%C3%A9&sourceid=mozilla-search&num=20 or: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=%C3%A9&sourceid=mozilla-search&num=20 (The default input charset of google is UTF-8) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. write a non-ascii character in the google search box and press enter. Actual Results: google changes the character to a '?' (question mark), so the query is malformed Expected Results: use UTF-8 for google queries
WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040427 Firefox/0.8.0+ Reporter please use a current build to verify your problem. Your version is outdated.
fixed by a patch in bug 225695, marking duplicate. Works in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040429 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 225695 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Contact: bugzilla → toolbars
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