Closed Bug 61344 Opened 24 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Search by passing keyword as an argument can't display Ja keyword correctly

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(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

defect

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RESOLVED INVALID
Future

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(Reporter: ji, Assigned: jshin1987)

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(Keywords: intl)

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When launching browser with an argument of a word, browser will take that argument as a search keyword. And the browser comes up with the search result for the keyword. If the argument is a Japanese word, when browser comes up, the Japanese search keyword is displayed garbled on the Sidebar search field and is displayed as question marks on the title of the search results. The search result looks correct. To see it, just run "./netscape nihongo (in Japanese)" on linux or run "netscp6.exe nihongo (in Japanese)" on MS console. I'll attach screenshots later.
Attached image A screenshot on linux (deleted) —
Attached image A screenshot on Windows. (deleted) —
Reassign to Roy, he is working on a similar bug 58866.
Assignee: nhotta → yokoyama
Added intl keyword.
Keywords: intl
Updating the target milestone.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Changed QA contact to andreasb@netscape.com.
QA Contact: teruko → andreasb
QA Contact: andreasb → jonrubin
mass change, switching qa contact from jonrubin to ruixu.
QA Contact: jonrubin → ruixu
The same thing happens when trying to search a Hebrew word from either the search sidebar or the address bar. The query gets sent to the search engine (google, in my case) as question marks. writing the same query in google's form yields a correct answer. Tested with 0.9.8 on windows and 0.9.9 on linux.
The same behaviour can be observed in Mozilla 1.0 RC2 (2002051006) and Polish characters. Different ways to reproduce: 1) Open a page with Polish characters. 2) Highlight a word containing Polish characterd (for example: w³a¶nie). 3) Right click on it and choose Search for [word]. or: 1) Type in a Polish word in the address box. 2) Instead of opening address choose "Search for [word]" from drop down list. Expected result: Default search engine searches the web for that word. Actual result: International characters are turned into "?" marks and searched word has improper spelling - the original word is not searched. The same happens when cyrilic characters are used. I'd change Summary: to Search by passing keyword as an argument can't display keyword with international characters correctly.. or something ;)
Attached image screen capture on Mac OS 9.1 JA (deleted) —
Looks like it's working in 20021016 at least on Linux. I was able to type in Polish characters and run Search with no errors.
It's also 'keyword server' dependent. If you change your default 'keyword' server to google (the default is search.netscape.com), it'd work much better. Another related issue on Windows is that the command line argument is restricted to the character repertoire of the current 'legacy' code page.
Is this an issue in current builds?
I think both roy and me are off mozilla for more than 2 years. If these bugs are still here now, I think the real stauts is 'won't fix'. If you want to reopen it, please find a new owner for it first.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Mass Reassign Please excuse the spam
Assignee: tetsuroy → nobody
Mass Re-opening Bugs Frank Tang Closed on Wensday March 02 for no reason, all the spam is his fault feel free to tar and feather him
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Reassigning Franks old bugs to Jungshik Shin for triage - Sorry for spam
Assignee: nobody → jshin1987
Status: REOPENED → NEW
QA Contact: ruixu → i18n
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago4 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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