Hello.

I want to provide web shortbuts for Konqueror/KRunner (like gg:word) for some online dictionaries.

Several of these online dictionaries expect the search data to be in percent encoding (URL encoding). For example, to search for Kübel in the Duden, the parameter is expected in the form K%FCbel. If it is not encoded, the request will not work. (http://www.duden-suche.de/suche/treffer ... 25&x=0&y=0)

How can I create such a shortcut? In the address field, \{@} and \{0} seem to provide alwasy the unencoded value. And in the charactersets that are available, I didn't found one that provides percent encoding.

I believe that KIO automatically translates them to percent characters as needed. It also does this for spaces, etc.

Hm. I've tried it with both entering the new shortcut ("test:Kübel") directly in Konqueror and using the shortcut in KRunner (calling Firefox, which is my default browser).

In both cases, the URL that is called is:

http://www.duden-suche.de/suche/trefferliste.php?suchbegriff[AND]=Kübel&suche=homepage&treffer_pro_seite=10&modus=title&level=125&x=0&y=0

And this contains Kübel and not K%FCbel.

The value is definitively not in percent encoding in the URL.

Konqueror displays an unencoded version of the url in its address bar. Does the website behave correctly?

No, it doesn't.

The example is a German dictionary. It doesn't find the corresponding entry when the URL isn't encoded.

There is a bug reported by me several months ago about web shorcuts and encoding, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182934, and I seems to be related to your problem. In Qt 4 encoding system is not compatible with Qt 3 so several KDE 4 are broken and I think that it was be broken for a long time or not fixed, as Thiago Macieira explain in bugs.kde.org.

KDE 4 seems to be a desktop developed only for english users.

The best thing you can do is report this bug in bugs.kde.org and still use Konqueror 3.

Okay. I'll subscribe in this bug...

Thanks.