678699 - URLs that contain characters that need encoding get copied as encoded instead of what is displayed

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Roman R.]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110812 Firefox/8.0a1
Build ID: 20110812030744

Steps to reproduce:

If a URL contains Cyrillic characters (maybe other Unicode characters too), it gets copied and pasted as encoded, e.g.:

http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA+%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82+%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE&lr=10130

This is bad. FF needs to retain the original encoding during copy/paste operations.

This has happened for many versions.

Comment 1

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Verified on Win7 with FF5 and Nightly FF8.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Type in a URL in the URL bar such as:
http://www.mozilla.org/#☃
2. Press Ctrl+C
3. Press Ctrl+V

Actual results:
The URL bar contains:
http://www.brianbondy.com/#%E2%98%83

Expected results: 
The URL bar should contain:
http://www.mozilla.org/#☃

Comment 2

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

oops actual results should read:
http://www.mozilla.org/#%E2%98%83

I also confirmed on OSX

Comment 3

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

More info:
- The problem only happens if the URL is loaded and then you copy. 
- The clipboard actually contains the wrong URL right from the copy because if you paste it in another program it has the same handling.

Comment 4

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Problem is more generalized than just unicode characters. The same thing happens for anything that needs encoding to be a proper URL.  Such as http://www.mozilla.org/#Hello hello2

It will display as #Hello hello2 but will be copied out as the encoded variant not the display variant.

Comment 5

[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.