311720 - non-ascii parameter for quick search turns into question mark (%3F) characters

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 270515

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Yuri Astrakhan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

This used to work in 1.0+, but stopped in 1.5.

Cyrilic characters turn into question marks in the location bar when using quick
search keywords.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a quick search bookmark:  
name=Ru Wiki
keyword=r
url=http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s

2. Make sure it works by entering "r Firefox" in location bar
3. Now enter "r Санкт-Петербург"  (Saint Petersburg) in location bar

Actual Results:  
Cyrilic characters turn into question marks (%3F) characters
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F-%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F


Expected Results:  
Converted, as in previous versions, to the proper encoding:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%82-%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3

Comment 1

[Yuri Astrakhan]

It appears that there is a bug with the bugzilla page as well - the page is not
shown as UTF-8 encoded. The sample text in the example is encoded as UTF-8, so
please make sure you get it correctly. You can copy it from the wikipedia page
title here:

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%82-%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270515 ***