284402 - URL sent in default locale instead of unicode, when typed directly into the address field

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 150376

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Chionsas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

the demonstration page is located at http://www.chionsas.lt/ačiū/
when you go to www.chionsas.lt and click the link ("testas"), it navigates to
that folder correctly. However, if you type the address directly into the
browser address field, the url is sent in Windows-1257 encoding (I'm using
Lithuanian locale in Windows 2003, and I beleive the same bug is true for
Windows XP and Windows 2000).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type www.chionsas.lt/ačiū/ into the address bar
2. enter

Actual Results:  
the browser navigates to http://www.chionsas.lt/a%E8i%FB/
(the special characters are encoded in Windows-1257)

Expected Results:  
the browser should navigate to http://www.chionsas.lt/a%C4%8Di%C5%AB/
(the special characters should be encoded in Unicode)


Opera and Internet Explorer sends unicode urls and the test case does not work
only in Firefox. I think it's a serious bug, as international web folder names
are inaccessible directly.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 150376 ***