131126 - using the address bar search set to google in hebrew does not work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Shoshannah Forbes]

MAC 9.2 , with the 0.9.9 milestone mozilla: When attempting to  perform a hebrew
search in google .com using mozilla search from the address bar,  I always get 0
results. however, searching in hebrew in google.com from using IE5 win, works
fine. Also, google.co.il works fine .  
to repro: set your search to use google, and then try to use it from the address
bar to search a word in hebrew.

Comment 1

[Shoshannah Forbes]

from the url in the address bar, it looks that the keywords are encoded
diffrently. compare for example the same search term:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F&sourceid=mozilla-search
from the address bar, to the same word typed into google.co.il search box:
http://www.google.co.il/search?q=%EE%F7%E9%F0%E8%E5%F9&hl=iw&ie=ISO-8859-8-I&oe=ISO-8859-8-I

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

%3F is ?, so the encoding is not being recognized when typing in the address bar.

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119825 ***

Comment 4

[Shoshannah Forbes]

hmm... just tried today directly at google.com : from Mozilla mac typing in a 
search directly in google.com brings the same result like from the address bar, 
while typing in hebrew in google com from ie win works.
evangalisem? something else?

Comment 5

[Ilya Konstantinov]

So the solution is simple -- always pass searched text in UTF-8 encoding to
www.google.com and append the ie=UTF-8 and oe=UTF-8 fields to the URL. With
those, searching www.google.com for a UTF-8 Hebrew string is just as good as
searching www.google.co.il for the same string in ISO-8859-8-I encoding.

I'm not sure whether other search engines can handle UTF-8, but there's no
better solution for searching for multilingual text anyway.

Also, change the OS and Platform to All -- it should affect all platforms (my
Linux box included).

Comment 6

[John Levon]

see bug 102984  

Comment 7

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This now works for me on Windows (since bug 145375 was fixed). Does it work on Mac?

Comment 8

[Uri Bernstein]

This has nothing to do with BiDi layout. Moving to Internationalization.

Comment 9

[Uri Bernstein]

(In reply to comment #7)
> This now works for me on Windows (since bug 145375 was fixed). Does it work on
Mac?

Actually, yes. WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US;
rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050727. So resolving WORKSFORME. Please reopen if you can
reproduce.