340376 - HTTP links with chinese characters can not connected

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 261929

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jay Chen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-TW; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-TW; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

When a URL used chinese characters mozilla seems can not recognize, for example: when click on a link with chinese characters, http://www.vh.ntu.edu.tw/chinese/"chinese_charactes".htm 
it will display a URL as below:
http://www.vh.ntu.edu.tw/chinese/%BE%CD%D4%5C%ED%9A%D6%AA.htm 
and the result will tell you can not to access this page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Please open this page: http://www.vh.ntu.edu.tw/index.html
2.Click a button with chinese characters on left side 


Actual Results:  
You will see a error page after you click a botton with chinese characters on the left side.

Expected Results:  
It should be displayed the current page. (IE doesn't have this issue)

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Workaround: go to 'about:config' and set 'network.standard-url.encode-utf8' to 'true'. That's the same as that of MS-IE : 'Always send URLs in UTF-8' (even if the page is GB-2312). See bug 129726.

The setting is 'false' in Firefox 2.0 and below (including your 1.5), but will be 'true' in Firefox 3.0. I can't find a request to change the default in Firefox 2.0 though.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

That would be bug 261929 comment 48 et seq.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261929 ***