284349 - Search bar doesn't pass German special characters (e.g. Umlauts) to Wikipedia

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 271786

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

German terms with special characters (e.g. Umlauts) entered in the Search bar
are not passed correctly to German Wikipedia. The result is invariably "not
found", the special characters are replaced by question marks. This makes the
search bar a waste of time when it comes to German Wikipedia searches in most cases.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter any word with Umlaut, e.g. "Löwe" (without the quotes) in the search field.
2. Select Wikipedia (DE) as the target for the search.
3. Press Enter.

Actual Results:  
A page shows with no results and the Umlaut replaced by ?

Expected Results:  
Should have found the word with Umlaut, e.g. "Löwe" (without the quotes) in
German Wikipedia.

Comment 1

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 271786 ***