271786 - [Firefox] German Firefox' default Wikipedia searchplugin doesn't work with umlauts

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: de / German, defect)

Description

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

The default searchplugin for Wikipedia doesn't recognise umlauts, but shows them
as as ?'s in the result page, maybe because our searchbar renders everything in
UTF-8 and not in ANSI.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

related to bug 265579

Comment 2

[Jungshik Shin]

Wikipedia searchplugin should have specified queeryCharset="utf-8" but
apparently doesn't. 

See 
http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9098

and you'll know how to fix this.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 270151 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

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

*** Bug 284349 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[laustro]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Wikipedia searchplugin should have specified queeryCharset="utf-8" but
> apparently doesn't. 
> 
> See 
> http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9098
> 
> and you'll know how to fix this.
> 
Sorry, I don't, because I am not a software engineer, I am just a user who would
very much like to use the search plugin. Can you please help me by sending a
fixed version of the search plugin and tell me how I can install it? That would
be really kind of you.

Many thanks in advance

Cheers,
Klaus ([e-mail])

Comment 6

[Jungshik Shin]

The assignee should know how to do that. If not, I'll attach a patch later.
 

Comment 7

[laustro]

(In reply to comment #6)
> The assignee should know how to do that. If not, I'll attach a patch later.
>  
Thanks for helping. Don't bother, though. I've found the solution in the German
Firefox user forum: use a text editor to edit ...\Program Files\Mozilla
Firefox\searchplugins\wikipedia-de.src and change the entry queryCharset to read
queryCharset="utf-8". It would be nice if that could be changed in the
distributed version as well.

Comment 8

[Jungshik Shin]

(In reply to comment #7)

> queryCharset="utf-8". It would be nice if that could be changed in the
> distributed version as well.

That's what this bug is about. It should be fixed when it reaches end-users so
that end users like you don't have to ask around and fix it manually. 

Comment 9

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

I reported this bug and I'll fix it as soon as the l10n trunk is open for check-ins.

Comment 10

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> I reported this bug and I'll fix it as soon as the l10n trunk is open for
check-ins.

As far as I know, l10n-*trunk* is open for checkins. Only BRANCH is restricted.
Or did I miss something?

Comment 11

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 284729 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Jungshik Shin]

Has this been taken care of? 

Comment 13

[Carey Evans]

Attachment: Simplest working search plugin for de.wikipedia.org

No, the bug still exists; see:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/l10n-aviarybranch/source/browser/locales/de-DE/searchplugins/wikipedia-de.src


The attachment is the simplest possible German Wikipedia search plugin.

Comment 14

[Jungshik Shin]

Abdulkadir, can you take care of it? 

Comment 15

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

I just checked in a modified search plugin (on the trunk). Fixed. 

http://bonsai-l10n.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=l10n/de/browser/searchplugins/wikipedia-de.src&rev=&root=/l10n