[Bug 770148] [NEW] Choqok incorrectly expands URLs with special characters

[Swâmi Petaramesh]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: choqok

When clicking a "shortened" URL inside a twit, Choqok expands it by
itself and passes the "expanded" URL to the web browser.

The matter is that Choqok incorrectly expands all URLs containing
accentuated i.e. éàçè characters, or special chars such as « ’»

When URLs containing such chars are handled by Choqok, each special char
seems to be passed to the browser as several meaningless bytes.

More and more CMS-generated URLs contains such special chars, especially
in languages that makes extensive use of them - such as french. When the
title of a paper, note, etc, contains such characters, there are high
chances that the CMS (such as wordpress, etc) will generate an URL
containing those, and Choqok will break it.

Example : http://bit.ly/gDeD5x

Also submitted to KDE bugtrack as
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271674

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: choqok 1.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Mon Apr 25 09:48:50 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: choqok
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-03 (22 days ago)

** Affects: choqok (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty unity-2d

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Title:
  Choqok incorrectly expands URLs with special characters