268269 - keyword value encoded and send with incorrect charset

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 233231

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041105 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041105 Firefox/1.0

Firefox ignore the LAST_CHARSET parameter in bookmarks.html file when encode the
keyword value (encode always UTF-8?).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit this URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=zoxig%E9n&go=Go
2. This will search "zoxigén" on Wikipedia
3. Wikipedia use ISO-8859-1 charset
4. CTRL+D
5. Modify the bookmark:
Location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go
Keyword: wiki
6. Type in Address bar: wiki zoxigén
Actual Results:  
Firefox open this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=zoxig%C3%A9n&go=Go
The "é" in the keyword encoded and send with UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1.
Firefox ignore the LAST_CHARSET="ISO-8859-1" parameter in bookmarks.html file.

Expected Results:  
Encoded and send with ISO-8859-1.

Comment 1

[Ivan Sagalaev]

See also bug 269153. 

Comment 2

[Jens Gyldenkærne Clausen]

This is a major problem for people using keywords and non-Ascii searces. I have
a long list of search engines with keywords - both national (Danish) and
international (among others Dictionary.com, Wikipedia and LEO). Most of them are
now useless as keyword searches if I wan't to search for a non-English term.
Beeing a Dane, this is not an uncommon task - some of my very often used Danish
search facilities are Dictionaries.

The problem seems to be new in 1.0, maybe even as late as in 1.0 Final. Can
anyone confirm this? A note from the developer team would be nice too.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233231 ***

Comment 4

[Jens Gyldenkærne Clausen]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233231 ***

I strongly disagree. Please read my comment to bug 233231 and reconsider.

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I strongly disagree. Please read my comment to bug 233231 and reconsider.

What about bug 258223 then? Is this a dupe of that?

Comment 6

[Jens Gyldenkærne Clausen]

(In reply to comment #5)

> What about bug 258223 then? Is this a dupe of that?

They are at least closely related. I'm not certain that a solution to one of
them will fix the other as well, but it may well be so.

The major difference in the two bugs are that this one concerns "old"
%s-searches  where the %s is manually inserted using bookmark manager, while bug
258223 concerns the new way of adding %s-searches using the menu.

I would guess that this bug still qualifies as a duplicate of bug 258223, but I
will leave the decision to others.

Comment 7

[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