191086 - German characters (Umlaut: הצ�) are not properly passed to search engine

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[Tim.Mueller-Seydlitz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: V 1.3

When entering a search key containing german characters (Umlaut: äöü) they are
not properly passed, (probably encoded) when sending to Google.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter "Stärke" in URL field
2. Press Search
3. View results of search in window



Expected Results:  
Hand over "Stärke" properly encoded to Google

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with win2k and a current trunk build.
search URL : 
http://www.google.com/search?q=st%E4rke&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0

Comment 2

[Matthias Bockelkamp]

Works for me using build 2003012804.

Comment 3

[Matthias Bockelkamp]

Works for me using build 2003012804.

Comment 4

[Tim.Mueller-Seydlitz]

It doesn't work for me with :
Mozilla 1.3b
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021219

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

Tim: Please test a newer build.
You might also want to get aquainted with the bug-reporting guidelines:
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html
Search for the word "three".

Comment 6

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030125

Comment 7

[Matthias Bockelkamp]

Still WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b)
Gecko/20030217. Since tms doesn't respond any more and everyone else sais WFM, I
think this should be closed.

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm