467243 - address bar search should map special characters to 7bit ones

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Gernot Hueller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

Address bar search finds exactly the characters you type.
However, many non-english languages have characters that do not fit in URLs. So one sometimes types them in the native language, sometimes a similar 7bit ascii character
example (german) ä->ae, ö->oe, ü->ue, ß->ss
example (french) é, è, ê -> e, œ->oe

as a specific example I have given http://www.liberation.fr/ from the newspaper Libération. Imagine bookmarking a specific article on that site. Later you remember only the article has been publiced on Libération however when you type that it wont be found in the address bar because the URL writes itself with the "simple e".
Search should also be vice versa ie finding a "é" when the user types "e".


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Suzanne Smedberg]

Marking new to see if it is feasible.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.