213049 - Google search bar won't convert input from UTF-8 to whatever Google expects.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 201642

(Camino Graveyard :: Toolbars & Menus, defect)

Description

[Paul Guyot]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030715 Camino/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030715 Camino/0.7+

If I enter some accents in Google search bar, Google will actually search for
the UTF-8 string which is not what I expect.

For example, if you type héhé in Google search bar, Google will actually search
for héhé which will yield to giving results for ha ha, thus not what you
wanted in first place.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type some accents in the Google search bar.
2. Press enter.
3. Look at what Google actually searched for.

Actual Results:  
Google doesn't search for the actual word but for another one.

Expected Results:  
Google should have searched for the word that I typed and that actually appears
in Google Search Bar.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030715
Mozilla Firebird/0.6 doesn't have the problem.
(anyway, I think it's just some UTF-8 string from Cocoa that isn't translated
back to whatever Google should have in its URL (ISO-8859-1?)).

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->pink

Comment 2

[Chris Casciano]

Confirming searching on üüüü resulted in

http://www.google.com/search?q=%C3%BC%C3%BC%C3%BC%C3%BC

but this looks like a dupe of bug 201642

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201642 ***