Bug#600149: iceweasel: incorrectly copies location bar content

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:00:20AM +0300, Krasu wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.5.13-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> When I try to copy some non-ASCII address from location bar, for example
> 
> http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Славянская_мифология
> 
> iceweasel will copy escaped line, e.g.
> 
> http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F
> 
> I expect (and I think many other users, I saw a flame war about that) that
> iceweasel will copy the address itself without escaping, like all other
> browsers do.

I think iceweasel is right doing this, because it can't know for sure
the target application will be able to handle the unescaped url (the url
probably needs to be escaped when talking to the server)

Mike