430410 - Unicode URL from external does not encode to puny code, but urlencode

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 309671

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ben Hicks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

When you click on an Unicode URL like http://www.müller.de/ in an external application like Thunderbird, Firefox does not encode it correctly to puny code, but urlencode which prevents a connection. e.g. Firefox can't find the server at www.m%c3%bcller.de. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter existing and valid URL with Unicode Chars into Thunderbird
2.Click on URL to open
3.see error Page in Firefox
Actual Results:  
Firefox tries to open the URL urlencoded (http://www.m%c3%bcller.de/)

Expected Results:  
Firefox should open the URL as punycode (xn--mller-kva.de)

Also tested with Vista and Firefox 3 Beta 5

Comment 1

[Moritz Strübe]

This is a Dup of bug 309671. Reporter/Someone with rights: Please dup this bug