Update: it looks like this (what I consider buggy) behavior is common to both firefox and IE. Both correctly encode the path part of the URL, but neither encode the query string part in UTF-8 (I believe for back compat with old buggy websites). Chrome does use UTF-8 for both.
It's easy to verify with netcat: $ nc -l 5000 // then cut'n'paste the following URL into the address bar http://localhost:8983/héllo?q=héllo And netcat will spit out the following for firefox: GET /h%C3%A9llo?q=h%E9llo HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:5000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 115 Connection: keep-alive Note: this appears to only be an issue with testing with browsers (i.e. cut-n-pasting, manually modifying, or typing unencoded URLs). When doing something like submitting a form from the solr admin page, they use the encoding of the form (which is UTF-8) and everything works fine. -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com
