When copying web addresses to a word processor sheet (like Word) Firefox replaces accents and symbols (like ¡, !) with unexpected string of "%letter%letter etc"
I use Internet data to do homeworks at the University. I am legally obligued to write the source of what I copy. When copying web addresses (source data) to a word processor sheet (like Word), Firefox replaces accents, symbols (like exclamation marks "¡" and "!") with unexpected strings of "%letters%letter" and so on. It doesn't happen wit IE, but I would better prefer to continue using Firefox, providing the trouble is solved. The troublemaking web addressess are in Spanish sites. I myself live in a Spanish-speaking country, and use Spanish to do my homework. My Firefox is in Spanish, and the version is 3.6.4.
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Hello Fernando.
This may be an actual bug or issue, but if you are copying a web address, know that web addresses don't have accents and complex characters. That weird formating is actually the real address, and you'll see that, if you use the addresses in that weird format, it will work normally (and Firefox may even change the formating into a readable URL, again).
If you are copying them from an actual text (and not copying the link directly), then it's a different problem. I mean, if your copying the addresses like you would copy "this line" for example.
Firefox escapes Unicode characters that are not in the main ASCII set before copying them to the clipboard. If you are copying from the location bar then place a character (e.g.=) at the far left and select and copy the remainder. That should avoid the URL from getting escaped.