850807 - URL strings with non-latin letters shouldb be copied as UTF, not as special-encoded

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 413083

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[anton]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130307023931

Steps to reproduce:

Open wikipedia with any non-latin article:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Красота

And then copy url and paste to some text editor or document (for example to email body editor).



Actual results:

Pasted text would look like 
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0

Which is not readable by human.


Expected results:

Link should be pasted as 
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Красота

Which is readable by human and is shown in URL field in this way.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

can be intentional like bug 458565