Closed Bug 284729 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

German localisation of Firefox includes buggy Wikipedia search plugin

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(Firefox :: Search, defect)

1.0 Branch
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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 271786

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(Reporter: carey.evans, Assigned: p_ch)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1

The Wikipedia search plugin included in de-DE.xpi in Firefox 1.0.1 has a number
of problems, including the following:

The queryCharset is specified as ISO-8859-1, but the German Wikipedia has used
UTF-8 for several months, at least. This means that queries including ä, ë, ß,
etc. will always fail.

The SRC file is encoded as UTF-8, but read as x-mac-roman.  Firefox doesn't use
the description, though, so this doesn't matter.

The update URL is http://update.mozilla.org/, so German Firefox installations
will generate unnecessary traffic to the update site; and the buggy plugin can't
be updated until the next Firefox version.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Install the German version of Firefox.
Change the selected search plugin to Wikipedia (DE).
Search for März, for example.
Actual Results:  
No results are found.

Expected Results:  
Loaded http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4rz.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 271786 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Version: unspecified → 1.0 Branch
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