264821 - Problem with German umlauts when using the Google search engine with Mozilla's Dropdown search function in the URL field

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247198

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[Marc Richter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

When searching for something containing german umlauts (such as in "Gärtner" or
"Öffentlich"), using Mozilla's dropdown search function, which drops down when
you're typing in it's URL bar, it submites these wrong to Google. For example:
When you're searching for "öffentlich", which means "public" in German, Google
searches for "?ffentlich" instead.

My related settings are:

- Default Search Engine: deGoogle
- Auto complete: Show Internet Search Engine while typing
- Language pack installed: "German"

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup the German language pack to get the "deGoogle" searchengine available
2. Setup Mozilla to show the default searchengine when autocompleting
3. Search for any string, containing ö,ä,ü or one of these

Actual Results:  
Mozilla submites the umlauts as "?" to google

Expected Results:  
It shall submit the umlauts as umlauts

none

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

works in the english google plugin, the german doesn't seem to use UTF-8

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247198 ***