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Please try this:
Go to the Advanced Title Search page:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title
Paste this example query into the Title search box: "Quién sabe?"
(without the quotation marks). Then press the Enter key.
The resulting search URL produces no results, because
the "é" character is incorrectly encoded in the URL:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?title=Qui%C3%83%C2%A9n%20sabe%3F
That is the incorrectly encoded URL that the aforementioned example query currently produces. In that URL, the "é" character is incorrectly encoded as %C3%83%C2%A9.
Tech note: When I submit the search query, my web browser correctly submits a "POST" request with the correct encoding in the query. But in response, the IMDb Advanced Title Search engine issues a type 302 redirect to the search-results URL where the incorrect encoding appears. (Apparently, UTF-8 support is not yet fully implemented in the search engine procedure that generates the redirect.)
Please fix the Advanced Title Search engine to produce correct encoding for all UTF-8 characters. In the aforementioned example, the correctly encoded URL would be as follows, with the "é" character encoded as %C3%A9:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?title=Qui%C3%A9n%20sabe%3F
(The aforementioned query is just an example. A complete fix would, of course, implement correct encoding for all allowable UTF-8 characters for all languages that IMDb Advanced Title Search is intended to support.)
Thanks.
Go to the Advanced Title Search page:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title
Paste this example query into the Title search box: "Quién sabe?"
(without the quotation marks). Then press the Enter key.
The resulting search URL produces no results, because
the "é" character is incorrectly encoded in the URL:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?title=Qui%C3%83%C2%A9n%20sabe%3F
That is the incorrectly encoded URL that the aforementioned example query currently produces. In that URL, the "é" character is incorrectly encoded as %C3%83%C2%A9.
Tech note: When I submit the search query, my web browser correctly submits a "POST" request with the correct encoding in the query. But in response, the IMDb Advanced Title Search engine issues a type 302 redirect to the search-results URL where the incorrect encoding appears. (Apparently, UTF-8 support is not yet fully implemented in the search engine procedure that generates the redirect.)
Please fix the Advanced Title Search engine to produce correct encoding for all UTF-8 characters. In the aforementioned example, the correctly encoded URL would be as follows, with the "é" character encoded as %C3%A9:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?title=Qui%C3%A9n%20sabe%3F
(The aforementioned query is just an example. A complete fix would, of course, implement correct encoding for all allowable UTF-8 characters for all languages that IMDb Advanced Title Search is intended to support.)
Thanks.

