Version: (using KDE 4.3.2) Shortcut that are defined in konqueror are accessible also through KRunnder (Alt+F2). However, the encoding settings doesn't work if konqueror is not your standard browser, but for example Firefox. Example: I'm using a web shortcut to access the "Duden", the most common german ortografic dictionary. This is the search term: http://www.duden.de/suche/index.php?suchwort=\{@}&suchbereich=mixed The encoding is ISO 8859-1. Result when searching for "Täter" in konqueror: http://www.duden.de/suche/index.php?suchwort=T�ter&suchbereich=mixed This one works fine. When pressing Alt+F2 and entering "shortcut:Täter" in KRunner who will launch Firefox as default browser, than Firefox will open this URL: http://www.duden.de/suche/index.php?suchwort=Täter&suchbereich=mixed This one doesn't work because the internet page doesn't accept this encoding. One possible solution could be make a percent encoding in the charset that was specified for the shortcut (in this case ISO 8859-1) and than call Firefox with the resulting URL. Because the URL has only ASCII character after the percent encoding, this should work reliable. In our example, the URL would be: http://www.duden.de/suche/index.php?suchwort=T%E4ter&suchbereich=mixed
Confirmed. KRunner don't do a proper encoding conversion even if your default browser is konqueror. So, web shorcuts charset conversion works in konqueror but not in krunner Web Shorcuts plugin.
This has been fixed already. Feel free to reopen if that is not the case for you with the latest version of KDE, v4.7.4 or higher.
Setting status correctly, see comment #2.