170382 - Korean characters (hangul) not correctly passed from search sidebar/URL-field to search page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 62409

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Tested with Mozilla 1.1

Conditions in order to reproduce this bug:
1) your computer has to display korean fonts.
2) go to the URL http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html
3) search for "empas" and remove the checkbox next to "Don't show untested plugins"
4) install the search plugin for empas

Steps to reproduce this bug
1) search for "Mozilla" (in the sidebar search panel)
2) the result displays correctly in the webpage and in the sidebar too.
3) copy a short korean text on this page (if you cannot input it with your keyboard)
4) search for this text (paste it in the sidebar search panel)
=> result: the result page shows a series of ??? and the GET string in the URL
bar of the browser shows a series of %3F. The results shown don't contain the
searched string either.
=> Expected result: korean text input in sidebar should be displayed in the
search field as-is

You can test it the other way round: if you search for some Korean text in the
website search of empas.com, you'll end up with some junk code in the sidebar
search field. The results however are correct here.

The same wrong behavior can be seen if you define empas as your default search
engine and you use the URL bar to type in the query.

Thought: is this a bug or is there some hidden thing to define in the search plugin?

Comment 1

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62409 ***