267755 - Keyword search should allow request charset configuration

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258223

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Rafal Smyka]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

When I use the keyword search it is always encoded in UTF-8. It's perfect for
google.
But some other sites expect the request encoded with different encoding (e.g.
ISO-8859-15). And they don't understand non ascii characters in UTF-8.
Thus I would like to have an option to select charset per bookmark.

I don't know if the keywords are always UTF-8 encoded or it's just because I
have it as a default encoding. Anyway I need several different ones, so global
setting is not good enough.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://dict.leo.org
2. Add a keyword search for word search.
3. Run the keyword search with key 'wählen'.

Perhaps default browser encoding has to be set to UTF-8.

Actual Results:  
Search input contains 'wà hlen' instead of 'wählen'.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

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

Comment 2

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

Try using %S instead of %s with a recent mozilla nightly, that should work
around your problem. It will send as cp1252, not -15, but in most case that's
what the web sites expect. %S doesn't work with FF, only Mozilla.

Comment 3

[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