370894 - bad encoding of hebrew (non latin?) substitute for custom keywords

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Tsahi Asher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; he-IL; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070111 SeaMonkey/1.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; he-IL; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070111 SeaMonkey/1.1

i have this custom keyword bookmark for the hebrew wikipedia:

http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s

with the keyword "wp". on mozilla 1.7.13 this worked fine, and it works in firefox, but since seamonkey 1.0 it doesn't. the word גז is encoded %3F%3F%3F instead of %D7%92%D7%90%D7%96 (as it is in firefox). in fact, all hebrew strings are encoded as sequences of %3F's.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a custom keyword bookmark
2. call this keyword with a hebrew word (may be true for other non-latin, i didn't check)
3.
Actual Results:  
the %s in the url is replaced with a sequence of %3F's

Expected Results:  
the %s should be replaced with properly encoded string

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

I seem to get %D7%92%D7%96 when I paste גז into the URL bar... is this still a problem?  Or is there something I'm missing?

Comment 2

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I seem to get %D7%92%D7%96 when I paste גז into the URL bar... is this still
> a problem?  Or is there something I'm missing?
> 

Tsahi have noted that "%D7%92%D7%90%D7%96" should decode to "גז" rather than "גאז" as it should. So you get the expected result for "גז".

Comment 3

[Tsahi Asher]

this seems to be some kind of profile corruption, because on a new profile it doesn't happen. and i also started to get this in a firefox installation i have on a different computer (at work). i'll have to verify the firefox case when i get to work tomorrow.

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > I seem to get %D7%92%D7%96 when I paste גז into the URL bar... is this still
> > a problem?  Or is there something I'm missing?
> 
> Tsahi have noted that "%D7%92%D7%90%D7%96" should decode to "גז" rather than
> "גאז" as it should. So you get the expected result for "גז".
> 

i think Andrew is getting the correct encoding here. on my machine and profile, i would get a sequence of %3F's, as i wrote.

Comment 4

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This is probably connected to the prefs network.standard-url.encode-utf8 and/or network.standard-url.escape-utf8.

Comment 5

[Tsahi Asher]

(In reply to comment #4)
> This is probably connected to the prefs network.standard-url.encode-utf8 and/or
> network.standard-url.escape-utf8.
> 
both of these prefs are at their default values in the SeaMonkey installation - false and true respectively.

Comment 6

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

The default of network.standard-url.encode-utf8 has gone to and fro: it was changed to true in bug 261929 at 2005-01-12, reverted to false in bug 284474 at 2005-10-10, and rereverted to true in bug 261929 at 2006-04-13. FWIW, I can't reproduce the bug with either pref setting in trunk builds of either firefox or seamonkey.

Comment 7

[Tsahi Asher]

re. comment 3, i also get this on a firefox 2.0 installation have.

Comment 8

[Ian Neal]

Does this happen on SM trunk nightlies?

Comment 9

[Ian Neal]

Denying SM2.0a1 as no response. You can nominate for 2.0 if there is more information posted.

Comment 10

[lenochod]

(1+ year later)

No reply from reporter

R.Incomplete

Reopen if you can reproduce with using an recent Build, and submit actual information.