287398 - bad conversion of non-ascii characters in url parameters

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Arnaud Boudou]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; fr-FR; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050319 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; fr-FR; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050319 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)

while trying to access to an url with non ascii-characters in parameters values,
theses characters are encoded to UTF-8 : 

http://aboudou.nerim.net/test/?test=é 

 with firefox 1.O.1 : the url becomes http://aboudou.nerim.net/test/?test=%E9
 with firefox 1.0+  : the url becomes http://aboudou.nerim.net/test/?test=%C3%A9

the UTF-8 encoding with firefox 1.0+ should not happens as it may break many php
scripts.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.goto http://aboudou.nerim.net/test/?test=é
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
é becomes %C3%A9

Expected Results:  
é should become %E9

Comment 1

[Chris Messina]

This also happens if you try to access www.Ingénue.com (random url). The error
message is: "www.xn--ingnue-dva.com could not be found. Please check the name
and try again." This seems nothing like the original URL.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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