62409 - Local Charsets are not supported in SearchPlugins

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Alexey Zakhlestin]

Whenever some search-engine returns not-ISO characters (Cyrillic windows-1251 in
my case), "Search-Results" tab in "My Sidebar" converts them into ISO-8859-1.
So, there is not much of use of search-plugins on non-english search-engines.

Possible solution - using the charset defined in browser, or, at least, some way
to specify charset for the search-engine manually.

Comment 1

[Karl Ove Hufthammer]

You can do this with the attributes:

queryCharset="ISO-8859-1"
charset="ISO-8859-1"

queryCharset is the charset you are sending the query in, and charset is the
charset (i.e. character (en)coding) of the result page (which the page really
should say using HTTP headers).

But this bug isn't fixed, since Mozilla doesn't interpret the charset names
case-insensitively. I have created a search engine plugin, which uses the
following charsets:

queryCharset="iso-8859-1"
charset="iso-8859-1"

When I do the search (Mozilla 0.6), the query is performed in UTF-8, and not in
iso-8859-1. If I change the charsets to uppercase, everything works OK.

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW so someone will look at it. I am also seeing this.

Comment 3

[Claudius Gayle]

-->future

Comment 4

[Gashu]

Attachment: Google search plugin enabled UTF8 charset

For Google search plugin, I have customized one which enables searching in
languages supported in UTF8(must be supported by Google).
am not sure its code is ought to be or not though.

Comment 5

[Gashu]

ren that google.src

Comment 6

[Gashu]

Google search plugin will be updated to support Unicode. 
( bug 145375 )

Comment 7

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

*** Bug 170382 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

*** Bug 157225 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

*** Bug 154773 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Jakub Narebski]

See also bug 174027 and comments therein. Search tab should use the charset
returned/used by the search engine.

Comment 11

[Jungshik Shin]

(In reply to comment #1)
>
> But this bug isn't fixed, since Mozilla doesn't interpret the charset names
> case-insensitively. I have created a search engine plugin, which uses the
> following charsets:
> 
> queryCharset="iso-8859-1"
> charset="iso-8859-1"

This must have been fixed a long time ago. Do you still see this problem?