242508 - quicksearch bookmarks should have i18n option

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258223

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[John Simon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

it seems that google.com recently changed policy and code for input form. they
now take only UTF-8 encoded (and again, x-urlencoded) search terms thru GET
method. but mozilla FB always passes characters in address bar as multibyte
encoding, so nowadays google quicksearch bar does not work for search terms
outside ascii range, e. g. Korean, Japanese etc.

For example, the URL above is searching google for a technical newspaper site in
Korean, but it fails miserably since it's encoded in EUC-KR. the correct URL
(which you can get by typing search term in google webpage directly) is :
http://www.google.com/search?q=%EC%A0%84%EC%9E%90%EC%8B%A0%EB%AC%B8

However, most web forms still take multibyte encodings and will be for several
years. Hence mozilla need some encoding options for quicksearch bookmarks: make
multibyte default, and optionally UTF-8. (of course predefined google bookmark
should be set to UTF-8.)

I'm not sure if the option could be simple as "multibyte/UTF-8" or should be
detailed as "View/Character Coding" in the main menu. I'm a Korean user, and 
it's just either EUC-KR (multibyte) or UTF-8 around these parts. but users in
Japan or China may want to include detailed options.

Actually, in google case you can just get correct results if you provide
"ie=EUC-KR" param. but I don't think every input forms take such parameters, and
this kind of option is needed eventually if you want to input characters not
represented by multibyte characters and only included in Unicode. yes there are
quite a bunch of them.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. make sure you can input complex (e.g. multibyte) scripts into address bar
2. use google quicksearch bar to input some words, or just click the URL above.
3. enjoy the brokenness.

Comment 1

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258223 ***

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change