How to encode search text

Question

I'm having a bit of a situation here, because of encoding. This problem occurs only on internet explorer (yes, that guy ...).

I'm using the search component, which works nice by the way, but whenever I try to search something with, let's say, an accent, everything goes wrong on IE, because that character doesn't get encoded.

For an example, I'm searching "crédit", so the URL that gets generated is :

http://mywebsite.com/index.php/search-result?searchword=crédit&searchphrase=all

I'd like to have the encoded version, which should be :

http://mywebsite.com/index.php/search-result?searchword=cr%C3%A9dit&searchphrase=all

However, I can't manage to find where I could change that. Of course, I want to do it as good as possible, which means not modifying any of the Joomla core file, or base components/modules/plugins.

Long story short, I sighted an event which could help me : onSearch, however I can't find any example of it and can't get it working.

PS : Joomla 3.5 here.

Answer 1

Copy the file /modules/mod_search/tmpl/default.php to templates/joomla-template/html/mod_search (make sure that the file doesn't exist under the destination directory first)

Add the following to the form tag:

enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

So, your form tag should be something like:

<form action="<?php echo JRoute::_('index.php');?>" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">

Hope this helps!