551955 - Wired behaviour with utf-8 urlencoded requets params in address bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 461304

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michel Wyraz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

When opening an url in the address bar that is url-encoded with utf8 encoding, this url is displayed in a decoded way. when pressed "enter" again in the adress bar, it is re-encoded in iso-8859-1 leading to a false url.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Paste to address bar: http://example.com/?q=%C3%A4%C3%B6%C3%BC

2. Press enter, the address bar now contains: http://example.com/?q=äöü

3. Click to address bar and press enter again, the address bar now contains: http://example.com/?q=%E4%F6%FC




When copying the URL from address bar (in step 2), the clipboard contains the correct url (except when copying parts of the url).

I could also reproduce it with FF 3.5.3 on Windows XP (x86).

I file this bug as "major" because IMO "typing an address to the browser" is a main feature which is broken here.