Re: [Vimprobable-users] A bunch of issues and questions

[Daniel C. <dan...@gm...>]

Daniel Carl
Karryanna <ka...@ka...> wrote:
> > > • Searching terms with diacritics sometimes breaks the diacritics
> > > Sometimes I try to search for a term including diacritics but when
> > > I get results, it seems that the diacritics had been broken somewhere.
> > > It should be reproducable for example here:
> > > https://is.cuni.cz/studium/eng/kdojekdo/index.php?KEY=Az1
> > > Say you wish to search for person whose family name is "Burešová".
> > > After searching, I see "Burešová" in the field.
> > > [...]
> > > However, on many sites searching with diacritis works all right.
> > > 
> > > Do you have any ideas about what this could be caused by?
> > 
> > In general such issues are caused by different character encondings used for
> > the page and the server side application.
> 
> Still other browsers can cope with that.
> Is there a chance someone would get into that and possibly come with a patch
> or workaround?
> Or could someone give me a hint about how to find out more?

You are right, the search form is submitted via http GET and it seems the url
is encoded by webkit in a wrong way. This behaviour appears in all webkitgtk
based browser I've available here. If the search URI is typed into inputbox,
the encoding is done right.
If there is no setting to change the behaviour of webkit, I fear that we can't
do much to prevent this behaviour. But I'll try to get into the issue.

Daniel