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Special characters (ö, ü, ä) don't work in imdb search


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Alfred v2.1.1 (227)

 

OSX 10.9.1 with German keyboard

 

The characters ö, ä and ü are replaced with e.g. %C3%B6 using the imdb search command.

Google search and the other commands I tested work fine.

 

Best regards.

Northdude

 

This appears to work fine as the % is just the UTF8 URL encoding. It even works if I edit the URL in Safari after it's launched and change ö to %C3%B6.

 

Which browser are you using?

 

Cheers,

Andrew

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Same thing with Safari.

 

I played around a bit: If I use the Alfred Google Search for the term "%C3%B6", the 25's are added, too:

 

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"ö" itself works fine here.

 

It's normal for the %25 to be added if you search in Alfred for a % as %25 is URL encoded to %, so the screenshot above looks correct for your search term in Alfred.

 

If you set your default browser to Chrome (or Safari) and do the imdb search in Alfred, are you getting the same result?

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I created a new User and it works fine with this account.

Seems that something's wrong with my Mac User Profile.

Sorry for bothering you. :unsure:

 

Do you have anything which could be intercepting URLs before they open? Alfred simply asks OS X to open the crafted search URL.

 

[moving to help sub-forum to see if anybody else may know what could be happening]

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