[Dictionarysearch] Dictionary with russian characters

[Jaap Haitsma]

Olivier Lannuzel wrote:
> dictionarysearch works OK with firefox 1.07, but does not work with
> thunderbird 1.07, it looks the word to be translated is not properly
> passed since for the same word the argument passed to the site is
> totally different between firefox and thunderbird
> e.g. for the same word "книга"
> 
> firefox
> http://lingvo.yandex.ru/fr?text=%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0&st_translate=1&lang=fr&search_type=lingvo 
> 
> 
> thunderbird
> http://lingvo.yandex.ru/fr?text=:=830&st_translate=1&lang=fr&search_type=lingvo 

Weird. I know there are some issues with search engines that don't 
support UTF-8 or latin languages but it's weird that it behaves 
differently in Firefox and thunderbird

> 
> Anything I can do ?
> 
Debug the code and provide a patch :-)

Jaap