GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 102380
Accents in location bar are encoded once typed.
Last modified: 2014-08-26 19:51:24 UTC
A description and discussion of this bug is also in Mozilla Bugzilla at: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187445 If you use an URL with accents or other non-standard characters, Galeon goes to the right page, but rewrites the URL in the Location bar to something encoded. Which is necessary to comply to the RFC (for the HTTP-protocol), but it is impractical for users. Although the RFC is clear on this, the RFC doesn't apply to good user interaction, or good UI design. Although the Mozilla developers are still refusing this, because they don't want bad (non RFC conformant) URLs in the Location bar. Just test: http://dag.wieers.com/personal/lyrics/Dévotion.php Links, Lynx, Netscape 3.04, Netscape 4.8 and Konqueror are reported to handle this as expected.
Galeon has not seen any code changes since May 2010: https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/galeon/log This project is not under active development anymore and got recently archived in GNOME Git. It is currently unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. If you are interested in maintainership, inform https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list