546342 - Extended characters in URLs corrupted when entered manually

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Peter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Several servers have problems with *manually* entered URLs that contain extended characters like åøæ.

All of the following links work fine when clicked. However, the first two won't work when entered manually, or copied & pasted, or even just when clicking the address bar when the page is loaded and pressing Enter to reload.

These don't work when entered manually:
* http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Ålesund
* http://www.bing.com/search?q=Ålesund

However, these do work:
* http://www.google.com/search?q=Ålesund
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ålesund

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the URL http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Ålesund
2. After the page has opened, click the address bar (or press Alt+D or Ctrl+L).
3. Press Enter to reload the URL.
Actual Results:  
The search page for "lesund" is loaded.

Expected Results:  
The search page for "Ålesund" should be loaded.

This bug seems to be related to #507815, however this one is unrelated to the "Language for non-Unicode programs" setting, and does not cause problems on every site.

Comment 1

[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.