271122 - IDN: URI encoding

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 261934

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Sebastien]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

URI Encoding used by Firefox for special caracters seems to be Latin1, however
w3c specifies that it should be UTF-8
ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-charmod-20010126/#sec-URIs (8.  Character
Encoding in URI References)

in my exemple, û is converted by firefox to %FB and it should be %C3%BB, the
result is that the remote server answer with 404.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to
http://www.vnunet.fr/actualite/fil+high-tech/panne+informatique+reseau+bouygues+telecom+coûte+chere/13041/2004/11/19/ent/index.html
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
404 error code

Expected Results:  
display the page :
http://www.vnunet.fr/actualite/fil+high-tech/panne+informatique+reseau+bouygues+telecom+co%C3%BBte+chere/13041/2004/11/19/ent/index.html

Hope this can help you to improve this very very good product that has pushed IE
away my computer :-)))

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Attachment: Minimized testcase

The link in the bug report doesn't display the bug because it's already in
UTF-8.

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261934 ***

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

See comments in bug 129726 on whether this should work correctly without setting
the pref.